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hither and thither



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Idioms and Phrases

Also, hither and yon . Here and there, as in I've been wandering about, hither and thither , or Ruth went hither and yon, searching for her sister . These old words for “here” and “there” are rarely heard outside these expressions, which themselves may be dying out. [c. a.d. 725]
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Example Sentences

Lovel found it a rambling, hither-and-thither old house, with tall hedges of yew all about it.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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