Brewer's: Newgate Fashion

Two by two. Prisoners used to be conveyed to Newgate coupled together in twos.

Must we all march? Yes, two and two, Newgate fashion.

Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., iii. 3.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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