arm in arm

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.

Example Sentences

A male and female couple strolls arm in arm, like they’re out on a romantic date, while a young man just beside them glances warily over his shoulder toward the camera, as if guarded about being noticed.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC

A cartoon by Isaac Cruikshank, Frailties of Fashion, shows just such a scene, with the prince arm in arm with his long-term mistress, Mrs. Fitzherbert, and the diminutive Duchess of York; both women are padded.

From Slate

Three Muslim New Yorkers—a comedian, a candidate, and a recently freed political prisoner—were locked arm in arm at center stage as the theater roared themselves hoarse.

From Slate

On Tuesday in Jakarta, Indonesia, as his plane door opened, another disembodied hand appeared, this time waving before Macron stepped into the camera frame smiling before he walked down the stairs arm in arm with his wife.

From Los Angeles Times

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