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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—T

Three-quarters

or 3/4. Rhyming slang for the neck. This certainly is a most ingenious perversion. “Three-quarters of a peck ” rhymes with neck, so, in writing, an expert simply sets down 3/4. (See Chivy.)

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