in pairs

English

Prepositional phrase

In groups of two individuals or items.
- 1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 265:
  Whenever possible locomotives make the journey in pairs between Waterloo and Nine Elms, in order to minimise line occupation.

Translations

in twos

Burmese: ဒွယံဒွယံ (my) (dwa.yamdwa.yam), အစုံအစုံ (my) (a.cum-a.cum)
Hungarian: párosával, párban, kettesével (hu), párokban
Maori: punarua, taurua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: parvis

Nynorsk: parvis

References

“in pairs”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

Aspirin, Piranis, aspirin

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