bicycle chain
Britishnoun
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Prince Harry also said that, after Diana's death, he and his brother William were sat down in a room and told that the events leading to the car crash were "like a bicycle chain".
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2023
Disney is a constant interplay between past and present, a continuous bicycle chain between the pieces we once loved and the current releases we run out to see to remind us of them.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2020
In the first act, Abbi is pulled, chest first, into a sewer grating; a pop-up sale turns into a riot; and Ilana gets her bicycle chain locked around her waist.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 7, 2016
The precision necessary to craft a working bicycle chain or a smoothly meshing zipper was simply beyond us for all those prior millennia.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2012
“You say, ‘Attagg,”’ the owner of the bicycle chain answered.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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