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in the swim en · ADP

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Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) Actively participating in the flow of events; very involved.
    • But "he's right there in the center of things, in the swim of art history." 2001 December 23, Ted Loos, “A Flashy Museum Gives a Quiet Painter a New Look”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Jun 2009:
    • These punctual jaunts, very sensibly practised as a purge against dullness, together with the stir and hubbub of a garrison town in which his walled garden stood isolated, as it were, all day long, amid marchings, countermarchings, bugle-calls, and the rumble of wagons filled with material of war, gave him a sense of being in the swim—of close participation in the world's affairs. 1903, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 12, in The Mayor of Troy:
    • He had very little money, but he was lucky at cards, made many acquaintances, took part in all entertainments, in a word, he was in the swim. 1894, Ivan Turgenev, chapter 8, in Constance Garnett, transl., A House of Gentlefolk, published 1859:

Relateds

thick of things

Translations (4)

fr dans le vent (actively participating in the flow of events) · fr dans le courant (actively participating in the flow of events) · es en la movida (actively participating in the flow of events) · es en la brecha (actively participating in the flow of events)