arm in arm

Idioms and Phrases

With one person's arm linked around another's; also, closely allied or intimate, as in Both couples walked arm in arm around the grounds of the estate , and This candidate is arm in arm with the party's liberal wing . The literal expression dates from the late 1300s, when Chaucer so used it: “They went arm in arm together into the garden” ( Troilus and Cressida ). The figurative usage dates from about 1600. Also see hand in hand .

Related Words

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