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Idioms and Phrases
With one person's arm linked around another's; also, closely allied or intimate, as in Both couples walked arm in arm around the grounds of the estate , and This candidate is arm in arm with the party's liberal wing . The literal expression dates from the late 1300s, when Chaucer so used it: “They went arm in arm together into the garden” ( Troilus and Cressida ). The figurative usage dates from about 1600. Also see hand in hand .Discover More
Example Sentences
“Aye ready;” and arm-in-arm we raced into the dining-room, scandalizing the servants.
“We were all arm-in-arm—the producers, Will, Bruce, me, and Alexander,” she says.
Mr. Carr declined refreshment for the present; and he and Val strolled out arm-in-arm.
While he was making his visit, she walked a little apart, arm-in-arm with Laura. '
He walked arm-in-arm with the Queen, who looked well and very much pleased.
Frken Knudsgaard glanced furtively at father and son, and saw that they were standing arm-in-arm.
It became the fashion to be seen arm-in-arm with him in the quadrangle, and to inquire from him in public for 'Finola.'
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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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