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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Life in the Big 12 is a walk on the tight rope, leaning this way and that, trying to maintain balance, one small step at a time.
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Doug Haller, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Learning that dunker spot, learning how to pick-and-pop efficiently, learning how to guard this way and that way.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
Lifting the controller and swinging it swiftly down hammers steel at Atsu’s family forge, gently pulling the trigger urges a campfire’s tendrils higher, while tilting it this way and that lowers mushrooms further into that fire for cooking.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
As Washington debates the future of the space agency, the Perseverance team can only go about its business, sending its rover this way and that, to sniff out clues to Mars’s ancient past.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
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Doug Haller, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Learning that dunker spot, learning how to pick-and-pop efficiently, learning how to guard this way and that way.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2025
Lifting the controller and swinging it swiftly down hammers steel at Atsu’s family forge, gently pulling the trigger urges a campfire’s tendrils higher, while tilting it this way and that lowers mushrooms further into that fire for cooking.
—Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2025
As Washington debates the future of the space agency, the Perseverance team can only go about its business, sending its rover this way and that, to sniff out clues to Mars’s ancient past.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
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