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BETWEEN between life and death in a position where living or dying is an even possibility. (Especially with caught or hovering.)And there I was on the operating table, hovering between life and death.The mountain climber hung by his rope, caught between life and death. betwixt and between undecided.I wish she would choose. She has been betwixt and between for three weeks.Tom is so betwixt and between about getting married. I don't think he's ready.
between someone and someone else and between something and something elseFig. [of a choice] existing between a selection of people or a selection of things. The choice is between Fred and Jill. It's between chocolate cake and cherry pie. See:- (just) between you and me
- a fine line
- a fine line between something
- A hedge between keeps friendship green
- allocate to
- alternate between
- apples and oranges, like comparing
- arbitrate between
- bad blood
- be few and far between
- be little love lost between (two people)
- be no love lost between (two people)
- be not much between the ears
- be torn between
- between
- between a rock and a hard place
- between dog and wolf
- between hawk and buzzard
- between hay and grass
- between jobs
- between life and death
- between ourselves
- between projects
- between Scylla and Charybdis
- between the devil and the deep blue sea
- between the hammer and the anvil
- between the jigs and the reels
- between the pipes
- between the sheets
- between the sticks
- between the/(one's) ears
- between two fires
- between wind and water
- between you and me
- between you and me and the bedpost
- between you and me and the bedpost/gatepost/four walls/lamppost
- between you me and the bedpost
- between you, (and) me, and the bedpost
- between you, (and) me, and the gatepost
- between you, me and the bedpost
- between you, me and the gatepost
- between you, me, and the bedpost
- between you, me, and the lamppost
- between your ears
- betwixt and between
- caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
- choice between (of) two evils, a
- choose between (two people or things)
- choose between two people or things
- come between
- come between (two or more people)
- commute between (places)
- commute between places
- decide between
- decide between (someone or something)
- differentiate between
- differentiate between (someone or something)
- discern between (someone or something) and (someone or something)
- discern between and
- discriminate between
- discriminate between (someone or something)
- draw a line between
- draw a line between (two things)
- draw the line between and else Go to draw a line between
- drive a wedge between
- drive a wedge between (someone or something)
- drive a wedge between A and B
- drive a wedge between someone and someone
- drive between
- fall between
- fall between (two things)
- fall between the cracks
- fall between two stools
- few and far between
- fluctuate between
- fluctuate between (something) and (something)
- get between
- get the bit between (one's) teeth
- get the bit between your teeth
- get/take the bit between your teeth
- go between
- go between the bark and the tree
- go between the moon and the milkman
- have nothing between the/(one's) ears
- hit (one) (right) between the eyes
- hit between the eyes
- hover between
- hover between (something) and (something else)
- in between
- in between times
- in-between
- insert between
- insert between (two things)
- interpose (one, oneself, or something) between (someone or something)
- interpose between people or things
- intersperse (something) between (something)
- intersperse between
- intervene between
- intervene between (multiple people)
- judge between
- keep it between the ditches
- little love lost between (two people)
- mediate between
- migrate between (some place or sth) and (some place or sth else)
- migrate between some place and some place else
- no love lost between (two people)
- no love lost between them, there's
- not have much between the ears
- oscillate between
- oscillate between (two people or things)
- ply between
- put some distance between
- put some distance between (someone or something)
- put some distance between someone and someone/something
- read between the lines
- read between the lines, to
- run between
- run between (someone or something)
- sandwich (someone or something) between (someone or something else)
- sandwich between
- slip between the cracks
- somewhere between
- split between
- split between (two or more people or things)
- stand between
- stand between (someone or something) and (someone or something)
- step between
- step between (someone or something)
- tail between one's legs, with one's
- take the bit between (one's) teeth
- take the bit between the teeth, to
- take the bit in one's mouth
- take the bit in teeth
- tear between
- tell the difference between
- tell the difference between (someone or something)
- there is a fine line between
- there is bad blood between
- there is no daylight between (two things)
- there is no love lost between (two people)
- there's little to choose between (two people or things)
- there's no love lost between
- there's no love lost between A and B
- there's not much to choose between (two people or things)
- there's nothing to choose between (two people or things)
- there's nothing, not much, etc. to choose between A and B
- torn between
- torn between, be
- tread a fine line between (something)
- tread a thin line between (something)
- vacillate between
- vary between
- walk a fine line between (something)
- walk a fine line between something
- waver between
- wedge between people or things
- What's (something) between friends?
- what's... between friends?
- with (one's) tail between (one's) legs
- with one's tail between one's legs, (to go off with)
- with tail between legs
- with your tail between your legs
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