this way and that
idiom
: in many different directions
The rabbit ran this way and that, trying not to get caught.
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Getting pushed around by a wave more powerful than himself, again and again, knocking him this way and that, almost teasing him before pulling him down forever.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
Actually, the big break comes not so much with the invention of biology but with the idea that human beings, like other animals, can be studied in this way and that, therefore, just as animals are divided into species and subspecies, so humans might be.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2015
In conversation, Rohrer vibrates, long limbs jetting this way and that.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
Every 10,000 years a small bird comes and wipes its beak this way and that upon the rock.
—Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
Actually, the big break comes not so much with the invention of biology but with the idea that human beings, like other animals, can be studied in this way and that, therefore, just as animals are divided into species and subspecies, so humans might be.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2015
In conversation, Rohrer vibrates, long limbs jetting this way and that.
—Joseph Bien-Kahn, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
Every 10,000 years a small bird comes and wipes its beak this way and that upon the rock.
—Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
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“This way and that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/this%20way%20and%20that. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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