woven

weave around

1. To move around from side to side in a meandering or unsteady manner. I could tell he was drunk by the way he was weaving around after we left the bar. When the bus driver started weaving around on the road, I worried that he might have fallen asleep!
2. To avoid someone or something by moving deftly from side to side. The waiter weaved around the tables of people, her arms laden with plates of food. We had to weave around the police officers who were inspecting people's bags on the sidewalk.
See also: around, weave

weave through (something)

To pass through a dense group by moving deftly in between the people or things within. He wove through the crowd of people to avoid the police officer. We had to weave through the forest as we ran back to camp. I felt certain the motorcycle was going to crash, judging by how dangerously it was weaving through traffic.
See also: through, weave
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

weave around

to move about, changing directions at random. The drunken driver wove around all over the road. He was weaving around everywhere.
See also: around, weave
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • find way around
  • bomb around
  • go around and around
  • get (someone) around the table
  • get around the table
  • around (one's) ears
  • chippy around
  • gaze around
  • fidget around
  • dart around
References in periodicals archive
Arigidi, aso oke, kitipa, aki, arikuku and Keke were the most commonly woven materials supplied by Owe people.
"At Woven Journey, we want to touch people's lives as much as we can—to let people know we care deeply about the lives they live, experience, and survive through each and every day," Shoshana Byrne, Owner of Woven Journey said.
Right: Dobby Weave Small decorative motifs woven into the pattern.
Woven composites are typically draped onto more or less complex surfaces to produce structural parts.
It looks much more beautiful than the one woven by western looms."
Woven fabrics obtained from cellulose yarns or blends of natural fibers with polyester were also tested in terms of electrical behaviour.
Three dimensional (3D) woven fabric as reinforcement is the backbone of textile composites and becoming popular due to cost saving, high production, near-net shaping and superior mechanical properties [5-11].
This vinyl floor covering features a reinforcement of segmented woven or non woven glass fiber mat located on the underside of the vinyl floor covering or at or near the neutral axis of the vinyl floor covering.
Mobile Home does this most efficiently by piling grid on grid--from the clotheslines to the woven pot holders, the embroidered dish towels to the little wire cage hanging next to them on the clothesline, that inspired her sculpture Isolette, 1999.
Adovasio and Soffer contend that ancient carved "Venus" figurines from central and eastern Europe are depicted wearing woven caps, skirts, and head coverings--evidence, they say, of sophisticated weaving skills among Ice Age people (SN: 10/21/00, p.
People from the mayor on down constantly tell me that we're "woven" into the larger community.
I have a love of textiles which over the years has drawn me, in particular, to the woven fabric.
Potter & Soar created a wire mesh pattern for security fencing in the ground: 300[m.sup.2] of specially woven Hudson pre-crimped architectural mesh was installed, providing decorative security mesh at the back of the stands on both sides of the pitch.
The company offers filaments of 9 to 22 microns, yarns and rovings from 320 to 4800 tex, plus chopped fibers and woven and nonwoven fabrics i meter wide.
Woven in minute detail, the gothic landscape captures a universal fascination with myth and magic.