two by two
Noah's boarding method
Two by two describes movement or arrangement in pairs, one pair following another: The animals entered the ark two by two.
The phrase evokes orderly procession, often with biblical overtones from the Noah story.
It can also describe dimensions—a two by two is lumber nominally two inches by two inches, though actually slightly smaller after milling.
- pairwiseRelating to coupled elements
- arkLarge rescue vessel
- Noah's ArkScripture's great flood ship
- matedJoined for reproduction
- parallelEquidistant at all points
couple · symmetry · dyad · duo · balance · binary · marching · mating · hand in hand · row · double · procession · paired off · paired up · partnership · evenness · analogue · cubits
- lumberlumber, timber, oak, pine, cedar
- Flood MythsNoah, deluge, flood myth, biblical flood, flood story
- counting phrasescount to ten, on three, countdown, count off
two by twosingle file
One-person-wide formation
one by one · individually · scattered · all at once · in a row
two by twoone by one
In succession, separately
individually · singly · one at a time · en masse · all at once