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worm into

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  1. Insinuate oneself subtly or gradually, as in He tried to worm into her confidence. This idiom alludes to the sinuous path of a worm. [Early 1600s]


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That same year, he was featured alongside Kevin Bacon in the zippy horror comedy “Tremors,” using a lasso to fool a man-eating worm into swallowing a makeshift pipe bomb.

From Washington Post May 13, 2022

But nothing about Hollywood is normal, and if you’ve been working there since you were a child, it’s bound to worm into you in ways that can prove hard to untangle.

From New York Times Sep. 10, 2021

Among Brenner’s most notable achievements was turning the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worm into a model system for human-disease research in the 1960s and 1970s, which sparked a new field of research.

From Scientific American Apr. 8, 2019

Among Brenner’s most notable achievements was turning the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worm into a model system for research into human disease in the 1960s and 1970s, which sparked a new field of research.

From Nature Apr. 4, 2019

What was the power that turned the worm into a moth?

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau

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