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Numbers are often used in idiomatic phrases in an apparently arbitrary way and not just in English but also in Spanish, Mallorquín and French. Spaniards say ‘cantar las cuarenta’ (literally, sing the forty) which means to tell someone in very blunt words what you really think of him (or her).
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