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Idioms and Phrases

Insinuate oneself subtly or gradually, as in He tried to worm into her confidence . This idiom alludes to the sinuous path of a worm. [Early 1600s]
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As night falls, they come across a gurgling organism that spits a teeny worm into Marta’s finger, and not long after, Blasco plows his van into a disfigured woman standing in the road.

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That same year, he was featured alongside Kevin Bacon in the zippy horror comedy “Tremors,” using a lasso to fool a man-eating worm into swallowing a makeshift pipe bomb.

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Simeon stuck the paper worm into the MoonPie, making it a wick.

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But nothing about Hollywood is normal, and if you’ve been working there since you were a child, it’s bound to worm into you in ways that can prove hard to untangle.

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Our favorite young adult fiction and fantasy books worm into our brains deeply and early – and many of them still teach readers and dreamers that aspirational power fantasy are by default the province of whiteness.

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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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