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put two and two together and come up with five

put two and two together and come up with five is the alternative form of put two and two together and make five.

Meaning of put two and two together and make five

Verb

put two and two together and make five (third-person singular simple present puts two and two together and makes five, present participle putting two and two together and making five, simple past and past participle put two and two together and made five)

  1. To come to the wrong conclusion; to make a false inference.

Forms of put two and two together and come up with five

third-person singular presentputs two and two together and comes up with five
present participleputting two and two together and coming up with five
pastput two and two together and came up with five
past participleput two and two together and come up with five

Questions about put two and two together and come up with five

What is put two and two together and come up with five the alternative form of?
Put two and two together and come up with five is the alternative form of put two and two together and make five.

Words near put two and two together and come up with five in the dictionary

  1. put to words
  2. put to work
  3. put together
  4. put two and two together
  5. put two and two together and came up with five
  6. put two and two together and come up with five
  7. put two and two together and made five
  8. put two and two together and make five
  9. put two fingers up
  10. put under
  11. put up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: put two and two together and come up with five (page history and authors); put two and two together and make five (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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