three Stooges
A group of three stupid people.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Those three guys are acting like the Three Stooges.”
“The project failed because the Three Stooges in the office forgot to save the files.”
“The committee members bickered incessantly, appearing to the rest of the staff as nothing more than the Three Stooges.”
From The Three Stooges (1922-1970), a comedy troupe whose stage act and short films featured three quarrelsome and absurd characters of low intelligence, given to insults and violent slapstick, who often stood in contrast with or were manipulated by characters of a higher social class.
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count to three
Synonym of count to ten.
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me three
Used to express agreement, after someone has already said "me too." Can be continued as "me four," "me five," and so on.
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six and two threes
Two equivalent choices or situations.
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three guys in a garage
A small, agile group of startup innovators with a big idea, passion, and modest resources.
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three Musketeers
A group of three people who are very closely associated; a trio.
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three score and ten
Seventy, being the number of years in a full lifetime of traditionally-expected duration.
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three sheets to the wind
Unsteady from drink.
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three skips of a louse
The worth of some trifling or insignificant matter; a whit or jot of value.
Last updated August 10, 2026