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the old one-two

NOUN
one-two punch
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Open in 2011 and made the last four at last year's Roland Garros, says she for one will be using the old one-two.

From Reuters May 21, 2017

During his dismantling of Margarito Pacquiao often threw the old one-two in clusters of three, creating a blur of half a dozen punches that confused the bigger man.

From The Guardian Dec. 5, 2010

They used to call it the old one-two: a jab and a cross, one following the other so quickly that the combination arrives almost as a single blow.

From The Guardian Dec. 5, 2010

She is a self-appointed judge and censor of all that goes on in Hollywood, and she carries out her assignment with a hey nonny-nonny and the old one-two.

From Time Magazine Archive

He certainly is a funny bird, but it's like in sales-pulling letters, you can give the clients the lovey-dovey stuff or you can give 'em the old one-two.

From Time Magazine Archive




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