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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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.
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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
Babies can grab onto it, twist it this way and that, and safely chew on it.
—Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 11 July 2024
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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
Babies can grab onto it, twist it this way and that, and safely chew on it.
—Ashley Ziegler, Parents, 11 July 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 5 Nov. 2024.
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