twos company; threes a crowd

[two's company; three's a crowd] An informal way to express a situation when two people desire privacy and a third one is present. — A proverb.

* /Beth and Carl wanted to be alone so when Maggie joined them they said, "Two's company; three's a crowd."/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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