interpose

interpose (one, oneself, or something) between (someone or something)

To place one, oneself, or something between someone or something. I interposed myself between the cat and the door so that she couldn't make a run for it.
See also: between, interpose

interpose (something) in(to) (something)

To introduce something into a particular situation. Please don't interpose your thoughts into this meeting, OK? You're just supposed to be observing.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

interpose someone or something between people or things

to put someone or something between people or things, in any combination. I do not wish to interpose Randy between the twins. We will not interpose our own standards between these two warring factions.
See also: between, interpose, people, thing

interpose something in (to) something

to introduce something into something; to put a question into a conversation. The chairman interposed a question into the discussion. May I interpose an observation in the proceedings?
See also: interpose
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • a walking
  • a walking (something)
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
  • a/the feel of (something)
  • all right
  • (have) got something going (with someone)
  • a straw will show which way the wind blows
  • (one) could use (something)
  • accompanied by
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The court commented that: consistent with the plain language of the applicable Georgia Statute, the court's most recent authorities interpreting the statute have allowed appellate review of a trial court's failure to rebuke a prosecutor or give a curative instruction where defense counsel did nothing more than interpose an objection to the prosecutor's improper statements.
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While Pynchon "easily reconciled himself to the loss of the prisoner, he felt the necessity of taking instant and efficient measures to subdue to becoming deference and obedience, the rash and lawless girl, who had dared to interpose between justice and its victim" (121).
"...[The] legislature is without authority to interpose its particular air quality control enforcement preferences under these circumstances."
Tim Baker artfully allows each of the actors to interpose and interact with each other, taking turns to narrate or adopt the part of his characters,both men and women.
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Gentlemen on the other side, with tearful solicitude for our Constitution, and knowing our tender regard for that majestic instrument, interpose it as a bar....
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That customers are the essential part of profit is a reality that sometimes has difficulty penetrating the layers of intermediaries who interpose themselves over time.
Dare it selfe to interpose; Cynthias shining orbe was made
Such rare pianists as Schiff and Sherman are dramatic without being theatrical in their interpretations, which is to say that between the inescapably physical art of mastering the keyboard and the audience, they interpose a body of tempering, self-conscious thought that frames the concert interestingly, thereby presenting it as something more than a feat .of freakish acrobatics.