What is How Many Beans Make 5?
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British term. A shibboleth designed to establish whether a person had learned nonsense rhyme "one bean ,two bean,a bean and a half and half a bean" from his Nanny and thereby establish upper or upper middle class origins.
" That fellow isn't our sort at all ,he doesn't even know how many beans make 5"
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Absolutely filthy rich. From the Paul Simon song title from Graceland (1986).
Look at those nouveaux-riches types at the boarding scho..
