Meaning of in the swim | Babel Free

Definitions

Actively participating in the flow of events; very involved.

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Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“But "he's right there in the center of things, in the swim⟳ of art history."”

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