arm-in-arm

A form of arm in arm — With arms linked together; with arms around each other's shoulder or waist. (of two or more people)

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adjectivearm-in-arm (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of arm in arm.
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    I’ve heard that lawyers’ children, on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies, and are surprised to see them often go out arm-in-arm with their tormenters during the first recess

    1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
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