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• n  a timber measuring (slightly under) 2 inches by 4 inches in cross section

• The more she thought about it, the more she liked the idea, and one day, in a fit of enterprise, she seized a board, a piece of two-by-four, it being the nearest thing at hand .
• As Wilson emphasized, "the save-our-state initiative is the two-by-four we need to make them take notice in Washington and provoke a legal challenge that will go all the way to the .
• The Tempest is Pontiac's compact, normally has a four-cylinder engine, gentle springs, and all the aerodynamic qualities of a two-by-four.

News & Articles

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• Jamaica Stunner: Sprint Queen Veronica Campbell-Brown Fails Drug Test
  The world of track and field, still running strong on a post-Olympic boost in popularity, just took a two-by-four to the shins. Andre Lowe of The Jamaica Gleaner is confirming that the island nation's most decorated female athlete, Veronica Campbell -Brown, was found to have a banned masking agent (diuretic) in her bloodstream in a test administered on May 4, 2013. The original test results ("A ...
  June 15, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• David Stern in Times Online
  I think it's fair enough,David Stern, the NBA commissioner, said in the city this week. "I mean, they moved here, they left because they had to, they're back. Let's make it work. It's easy. We're not here with a two-by-four to influence...
• Paulina Porizkova in 10News.com
  I've been known as a klutz my entire life,Porizkova said before the practices began. "My family called me as graceful as a two-by-four."
• Jeb Hensarling in NorthJersey.com
  I think after the party got hit over the head with a two-by-four in two elections in a row, some people decided, as Republicans, we better stand for Republican principles,Hensarling said.