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View synonyms for in the groove

in the groove



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Performing very well, excellent; also, in fashion, up-to-date. For example, The band was slowly getting in the groove , or To be in the groove this year you'll have to get a fake fur coat . This idiom originally alluded to running accurately in a channel, or groove. It was taken up by jazz musicians in the 1920s and later began to be used more loosely. A variant, back in the groove , means “returning to one's old self,” as in He was very ill but now he's back in the groove . [ Slang ; mid-1800s]

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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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