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between someone

 and someone else and between something and something else

Fig. [of a choice] existing between a selection of people or a selection of things. The choice is between Fred and Jill. It's between chocolate cake and cherry pie.

See:

• a hedge between keeps friendship green
• allocate to
• alternate between
• arbitrate between
• be few and far between
• be little love lost between (two people)
• be not much between the ears
• between
• between a rock and a hard place
• between dog and wolf
• between hawk and buzzard
• between hay and grass
• between jobs
• between life and death
• between Scylla and Charybdis
• between the devil and the deep blue sea
• between the hammer and the anvil
• between the jigs and the reels
• between the pipes
• between the sheets
• between two fires
• between wind and water
• between you and me
• between you me and the bedpost
• between you, me, and the bedpost
• between you, me, and the lamppost
• betwixt and between
• caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
• choose between two people or things
• come between
• commute between places
• decide between
• differentiate between
• discern between and
• discriminate between
• draw a line between
• draw the line between and else Go to draw a line between
• drive a wedge between
• drive between
• fall between
• fall between the cracks
• fall between two stools
• few and far between
• fluctuate between
• get between
• get the bit between teeth
• go between
• go between the bark and the tree
• go between the moon and the milkman
• have nothing between the/ ears
• hit between the eyes
• hover between
• in between
• in between times
• in-between
• insert between
• interpose between people or things
• intersperse between
• intervene between
• judge between
• keep it between the ditches
• mediate between
• migrate between some place and some place else
• no love lost between
• not have much between the ears
• oscillate between
• ply between
• put some distance between
• put some distance between someone and someone/something
• read between the lines
• run between
• sandwich between
• slip between the cracks
• somewhere between
• split between
• stand between
• step between
• tail between legs
• tail between one's legs, with one's
• take the bit in one's mouth
• take the bit in teeth
• tear between
• tell the difference between
• there is a fine line between
• torn between
• torn between, be
• vacillate between
• vary between
• waver between
• wedge between people or things
• with tail between legs