not 12 in numbers but 13
a group or set of thirteen
usually 13 and rarely 14
The fellow gave me a baker’s dozen of cookies. It made my children very happy.
I always carry a baker’s dozen chocolates in my purse.
I needed only 10 cars and my car dealer friend arrange me baker’s dozen of cars.
I had demanded about 15 numbers of drinking water bottle for that long journey. But shopkeeper had only a dozen and I asked him to arrange baker’s dozen at least.
There is no origin for this idiom
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