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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Bencic, who had been regaining the control that saw her joystick Gauff this way and that in the first set, couldn’t believe her luck.
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Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
Even when her character takes a more urgent role in this hermetic story, the excellent Garner doesn’t have much to play outside a parade of slow-roll nonverbal shots of Charlotte peering this way and that, taking charge of a rapidly dissolving situation but never really getting her due.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
Every line of poetry is turned this way and that to reveal its author’s exquisite sensitivity to folk and imperial languages alike.
—The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
Just you, some soft black leather, a default computer voice, and—for now—a steering wheel, ghostly turning this way and that.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2024
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Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025
Even when her character takes a more urgent role in this hermetic story, the excellent Garner doesn’t have much to play outside a parade of slow-roll nonverbal shots of Charlotte peering this way and that, taking charge of a rapidly dissolving situation but never really getting her due.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
Every line of poetry is turned this way and that to reveal its author’s exquisite sensitivity to folk and imperial languages alike.
—The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
Just you, some soft black leather, a default computer voice, and—for now—a steering wheel, ghostly turning this way and that.
—Wired Staff, WIRED, 20 Nov. 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 23 Jan. 2025.
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