in the middle of

1. Also, in the midst of . During, while engaged in, as in He stopped him in the middle of his speech , or I'm in the midst of calculating my income tax . The first expression dates from about 1600, the second from about 1500. Also see in the midst .

2. in the middle of nowhere . In a very remote location, as in We found a great little hotel, out in the middle of nowhere . [Early 1900s]

Example Sentences

“That song is about somebody’s inner child being in the middle of a labyrinth, and you’re trying to find them so you can convince them that you’re in love,” Jesso tells me.

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For one, the S&P 500 was up closer to 2% in the middle of the afternoon, a sign that investors had finally started to buy on the dip after days of worries about tech valuations and Federal Reserve policy.

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Had that happened, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission warned that the entire gas system would have shut down, perhaps for months, “leaving natural gas customers without heat in the middle of winter.”

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I wanted to do that when I visited with my kids in the middle of my mom’s illness, but she ended up back in the hospital three hours into our visit.

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The only complaint is noise above my bedroom in the middle of the night.

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