At sixes and seven with you...whats this???

[Ingles_4u]

Hello again,

Thanks very much for all the replys with my "was - were" question.

How about this one, as I really haven´t any idea of what it means. It´s also a song from Tim Rice-Webber.

Don´t Cry For Me Argentina

It won't be easy, you'll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I've done
You won't believe me
All you will see is a girl you once knew
Although she's dressed up to the nines
At sixes and sevens with you

Does anyone understand what this (in red) wants to say? My wild guess is that, once she has passed away? However, I have no idea nor wild guesses as to what sixes and sevens with you could mean!:-(

Any ideas?
Thanks
Carlos

 

[Anglika]

"Dressed up to the nines" = very smartly clothed; "dressed to kill"

"at sixes and sevens" = A state of total confusion and disorder, or of disagreement between parties

All you will see is the girl you once knew as a ragamuffin, now dressed to kill, and that you and she are in disagreement.

 

[riverkid]

Anglika wrote:
"at sixes and sevens" = A state of total confusion and disorder, or of disagreement between parties

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I've never come across that saying. Thanks, Anglika.

[I clicked the thanks but then I realized that you'd have no way to know what the hell I was thanking you for]

 

[gdonuts]

Wow me neither.,must be a fairly new expression ,or a really old one

 

[Ingles_4u]

"Dressed up to the nines" = very smartly clothed; "dressed to kill"

"at sixes and sevens" = A state of total confusion and disorder, or of disagreement between parties

All you will see is the girl you once knew as a ragamuffin, now dressed to kill, and that you and she are in disagreement.

Thank you so much for this explanation. I had no idea what it could mean! I can now understand this song a lot better now.
All the best
Carlos.

 

[BobK]

"Dressed up to the nines" = very smartly clothed; "dressed to kill"

"at sixes and sevens" = A state of total confusion and disorder, or of disagreement between parties
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:up: Until I heard Tim Rice's lyric, I had never met the phrase 'at sixes and sevens with'. He (Rice) had used 'dressed up to the nines', and wanted to balance it with another number-based idiom; I think he just added the 'with', hoping that people would think 'at sixes and sevens with' was an alternative to 'at cross-purposes with'. (I suppose it is an alternative now; what was it Noel Coward said about popular music? ;-) )

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