arm in arm

Idioms  

1. 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.

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Example Sentences

Once we fought the Cold War arm in arm against “tyrannical forces” that “censored dissidents, that closed churches.”

From The Wall Street Journal

They’re walking arm in arm, and their heads are close together.

From Literature

Besides, she was too busy prancing around Jenkintown arm in arm with Mrs. Maroney to take any notice.

From Literature

He and Hattie Lawton were arm in arm like a married couple, probably on their way to our meeting at the Barnum Hotel.

From Literature

She stayed close to Molly, walking arm in arm with her the way she ordinarily liked for at least half the bread crawl, leaning on her when they scanned menus or stopped to eat, but something was off.

From Literature

Related Words

• accordingly
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• together
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