bunch of fives

If you argued with him, you usually got a bunch of fives."

In part two: A bunch of fives.

The name may be derived from the slang expression "a bunch of fives" (meaning a fist).

"His prose", according to a colleague, "was lithe, muscular and fast as a bunch of fives.

Five in the Morning b/w Bunch of Fives (1973)

A Bunch of Fives

A Bunch of Fives is an English children's television show broadcast in the 1970s on ITV.

"A Bunch of Fives" (1977) TV (2 episodes) as Ronnie

I jumped up, red in the face, longing to plant a bunch of fives right in Wallace's mush, but Margey dragged me back into my chair.

Formed by compounding: a five (that is, a hand-slap; compare British slang bunch of fives for a hand or fist) that is performed high over the head.

She catches him trying to fish it out, and he is only saved from a "bunch of fives" by Ronald after Polly says that there has been a bomb scare.

After the self-release of their initial EP, Bunch of Fives, they were signed by EMI Records.

"Go Home Baby" / "At The Station" ('Bunch Of Fives', August 1966)

At the end of 1982 joined the two Daves, Tom Leonard, Sean Hardie, as the fifth writer on the revue A Bunch of Fives.

A BUNCH OF FIVES (Wildcat Theatre Co., 1983)

Bracken's Irish accent sounded fresh but the rejuvenated band recorded only one more album, 1979's "A Bunch Of Fives" for Topic Records before finally splitting in 1980.

Jeff Evans, writing in the Guinness Television Encyclopedia, writes that the series adopts a "far more adult approach" than "previous efforts in the same vein" such as A Bunch of Fives.

Ross Bickel, Donald Burton and Edward Hibbert are exactingly English in contrasting roles, Mr. Hibbert as a blusterer who repeatedly threatens fisticuffs (watch out or he will respond with a "bunch of fives").

Or a little car runs into the back of yours and you rush out to show a bunch of fives to the driver who, it becomes apparent as he goes on unfolding more body like some horrible conjuring trick, must have been sitting on the back seat.