What does one-two-three mean?

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one-two-three

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.55 in modern English

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"1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 91, ...when the invader just gets up and leaves, one-two-three, like that."

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