weave in and out

Idioms  

1. Move by twisting and turning or winding in and out, as in The motorcycle wove in and out of traffic, leaving us far behind. This expression is a redundancy, since weave literally means “intertwine strands of thread.”

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Example Sentences

But the director, Michael Arden, who won his second directing Tony for “Maybe Happy Ending,” cannot keep the musical from stalling as various ancillary characters weave in and out.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cars weave in and out of traffic, leaving little margin for error.

From BBC

“I literally had to weave in and out of them ... like pylons.”

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, his 2009 novel “One Day” follows its two protagonists, Emma and Dexter, on the same day each year for two decades, as they weave in and out of each other’s lives as friends, partners and everything in between.

From New York Times

The first act, about an hour long and with perhaps seven numbers — though it’s hard to count because they weave in and out of the dialogue — introduces us to Ives’s American versions of Buñuel’s French gourmands from “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.”

From New York Times