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in the middle of

Also, in the midst of . During, while engaged in, as in He stopped him in the middle of his speech , or I'm in the midst of calculating my income tax . The first expression dates from about 1600, the second from about 1500. Also see in the midst .
in the middle of nowhere . In a very remote location, as in We found a great little hotel, out in the middle of nowhere . [Early 1900s]

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With that and a few other pointers — we watched as three guys drew a line of fire around the base of a big, beautiful oak tree in the middle of the hillside to shield it from what was about to happen — Nielson led me to the bottom of the hill and handed me a drip torch.

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When the pain got worse in the middle of 2020, he consulted his GP who told him he had likely pulled a muscle and that the twinges would sort themselves out.

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But the closest I ever came to chills was during the dance sequence in Act 2, when we meet the real chuck for the first time, and something calls him to move to the beat of a busker’s drums in the middle of the street.

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And in his new film, “The Life of Chuck,” writer-director Mike Flanagan is betting that even the most weary viewer will be charmed by the sight of Tom Hiddleston busting a move in the middle of the street.

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There are important health and environmental questions about whether black widows are becoming more deadly or displacing other arachnid species, but Verrelli raises a different question: "They were here first. Are they really invading the urban area? Yes, because we plopped the urban area down in the middle of the desert."

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