Noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
Source: WordNethalf-a-dozen
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Lope de Vega
I guess I'm just an old mad scientist at bottom. Give me an underground laboratory, half a dozen atom-smashers, and a beautiful girl in diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws. S. J. Perelman
Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. Sinclair Lewis
It's like exchanging six for half a dozen. Portuguese Proverb
Six of one, and half a dozen of the other. Italian Proverb
Six of one and half a dozen of the other. English Proverb