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

“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

Don Bradman walking off for a duck, Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh arm in arm, Stuart Broad denying Australia one last time.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

The local girls, bareheaded, were walking arm in arm.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

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