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weave in and out



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Idioms and Phrases

Move by twisting and turning or winding in and out, as in The motorcycle wove in and out of traffic, leaving us far behind . This expression is a redundancy, since weave literally means “intertwine strands of thread.”
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Cars weave in and out of traffic, leaving little margin for error.

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“I literally had to weave in and out of them ... like pylons.”

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Instead, his 2009 novel “One Day” follows its two protagonists, Emma and Dexter, on the same day each year for two decades, as they weave in and out of each other’s lives as friends, partners and everything in between.

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The first act, about an hour long and with perhaps seven numbers — though it’s hard to count because they weave in and out of the dialogue — introduces us to Ives’s American versions of Buñuel’s French gourmands from “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.”

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Kittens weave in and out of the rows of people, sometimes even falling asleep on participants, prompting laughter from the group.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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