(n., also "the Third") 1. the Third Amendment to the US Constitution, forbidding "the quartering of soldiers" in peacetime without compensation. 2. Something (generally a political issue) which everyone treats like its the watershed between utopia and atomic holocaust, but which turns out to be Kent's "whoreson zed [the] unnecessary letter" (from King Lear); that is, entirely superfluous. 3. Some nitpicky point upon which someone has based their personal agenda, and continues to rehash it endlessly at every opportunity. 4. (phrase) "take the Third" (like "take the Fifth"): to consider something so obviously off-topic that you refuse to discuss it.
Примеры использования:
"What is it with Oscar? He keeps harping on the 'gold & silver' money thing at every meeting." "Oh, he's harmless: it's just his Third." | "I want an answer! Are you going to make arrangements about walking my pugs or not?!" "...um, I'll take the Third."
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