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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arm in arm

And so the show ends, with the two women walking arm in arm, first in Paris and then in Las Vegas, working on Deborah Vance’s final show.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

“He approached it much more like, ‘Hey, Matt, we’ve been in the battle together, we’ve walked arm in arm, you know my beliefs.

From Salon ● May 23, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

After laying their flowers, they walked away, arm in arm.

From Barron's ● Jan. 1, 2026

“Images like this,” she said, pointing to a photo of James Baldwin arm in arm with Marlon Brando, “these are the kinds of things that get people excited.”

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

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