a time or two - What Phill says when he doesn't know what he means, and no o

What Phill says when he doesn't know what he means, and no one else does either because they're all too dumb to ask.

'A time or two,' he said. No one knew what that meant.

Phill said, 'A time or two.' We all just stared at him.

He said, 'A time or two.' We all said, 'What?'