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to-and-fro
[ too-uhn-froh ]
adjective
- back-and-forth:
to-and-fro motion.
noun
- a continuous or regular movement backward and forward; an alternating movement, flux, flow, etc.:
the to-and-fro of the surf.
to and fro
adjective
- back and forth
- here and there
Derived Forms
- 藞toing and 藞froing, noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of to-and-fro1
Idioms and Phrases
Back and forth, as in He was like a caged animal, pacing to and fro . Strictly speaking, to means 鈥渢oward鈥 and fro 鈥渁way from,鈥 but this idiom is used more vaguely in the sense of 鈥渕oving alternately in different directions.鈥 [First half of 1300s]Example Sentences
Slogans are easy, and they sound really tough, but it鈥檚 a little different when you get into the to-and-fro.
But among female elephants who have recently birthed a calf, ears are not the only parts that hang low and wobble to-and-fro.
The fixture began a turbulent period of to-and-fro between the sides.
When the ground began to shake, rocking her bed to-and-fro like a raft in a current, Temilade Openiyi briefly wondered if she was dreaming.
Spine rattling to-and-fro against the rhythms of the road.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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