entwine

entwine around (someone or something)

1. To wrap around someone or something. We need to cut back these vines that have entwined around our gutters.
2. To wrap something around someone or something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "entwine" and "around." My heart fluttered when my date entwined his fingers around mine.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

entwine around someone or something

to weave or wind around someone or something. The snake entwined around the limb of the tree. The huge python entwined around the horrified farmer.
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entwine something around someone or something

to weave or wind something around someone or something. They entwined their arms around each other. Jack entwined the garland of flowers around Jill.
See also: around, entwine
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • entwine around
  • entwine around (someone or something)
  • cluster
  • cluster around
  • cluster around (someone or something)
  • carry (someone or something) about
  • carry about
  • carry around
  • forage
  • forage around for (something)
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In a joint statement, Andy Wasklewicz and Tobias Wunden, Founders of Entwine, said: "Extron is the market leader for AV systems products, and with the SMP 351 Streaming Media Processor, they have set a new standard for high performance streaming and recording hardware.
The chef was a member of the blending team for entwine, which launched in 2011.
Our solution which can be utilized in over 450 Indian Casinos nationwide is available today and we are glad Entwine has chosen to join us as leaders in this venture.'
WINDSOR: 6.15 Iron Mountain, 6.45 Swampy, 7.15 Entwine, 7.45 Selking, 8.15 Rheinbold, 8.45 Compatible.
Trainer James Fanshawe has an understandable soft spot for Entwine, as she is a daughter of the classy sprinter Splice who helped put him on the map when winning several decent races for the yard at the start of his training career.
NEWMARKET: 1.30 Golden Hadeer, 2.05 Entwine, 2.35 Illusion, 3.10 Lujain (nap), 4.15 Easaar, 4.45 Princess Natalie.
And Philemon and Baucis entwine for a final, eternal kiss as they turn into trees.
Five furlongs proved too short for ALHASAD (2.35) on his only other start, but a strong-finishing third behind useful Entwine should have set him up for this.
The artist maintains the atmosphere of erotic camaraderie and lilting corruption while refining the terms under which beauty and authority entwine. Most important, she has stopped photographing only teenagers.
And then there are Pieter Schoolwerth's cruel tableaux that entwine corporate logos, products, media stars, and mutant figures in the most concise argument for the candy-coated terror that Surrealism crossed with Pop can wield.
Riggins and Gad, in "Where the Shining Trumpets Blow," elucidate Neumeier's invention of myriad ways to entwine couples' limbs into graceful knots that slip seamlessly into new ravelings.
A tale of passion, dramaandloveset in a rural Sicilian village, the famous piece entwines desire with tragedy and is brought to a close with the famous line "La commedia finita" - "The comedy is over".
Filled with snippets of history, both English and American, the story cleverly entwines ancient magic and contemporary adolescence in a coming-of-age story that works on both levels.
The highest-profile lesbian films in Berlin were shut out from the Teddies: Bob Gosse's Julie Johnson, which entwines Courtney Love and Lili Taylor; Lea Pool's Lost and Delirious, an emotionally intense schoolgirl lustfest; and Sande Zeig's stylized suspenser The Girl.