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Idioms and Phrases
Insinuate oneself subtly or gradually, as in He tried to worm into her confidence . This idiom alludes to the sinuous path of a worm. [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
As night falls, they come across a gurgling organism that spits a teeny worm into Marta’s finger, and not long after, Blasco plows his van into a disfigured woman standing in the road.
That same year, he was featured alongside Kevin Bacon in the zippy horror comedy “Tremors,†using a lasso to fool a man-eating worm into swallowing a makeshift pipe bomb.
Simeon stuck the paper worm into the MoonPie, making it a wick.
But nothing about Hollywood is normal, and if you’ve been working there since you were a child, it’s bound to worm into you in ways that can prove hard to untangle.
Our favorite young adult fiction and fantasy books worm into our brains deeply and early – and many of them still teach readers and dreamers that aspirational power fantasy are by default the province of whiteness.
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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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