2015年7月4日 星期六

to-and-froing, back and forth,

endless and percussive to-and-froing


This card has been recycled between 2 brothers for 84 birthdays...http://abcn.ws/1NwB0Ie





Back and forth, as in He was like a caged animal, pacing to and fro. Strictly speaking, to means "toward" and fro "away from," but this idiom is used more vaguely in the sense of "moving alternately in different directions." [First half of 1300s]

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