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Phrase(s): come between something and something else
to have a position between one thing and another. • April comes between March and May. • This volume comes between numbers fourteen and sixteen., Phrase(s): come between someone and someone else
1. Lit. to be in between two people. • That’s my place, there. I come between Maria and Lynn. • In the line of contestants, I come between Bob and Bill. 2. Fig. to interfere in someone else’s romance; to break up a pair of lovers. • Don’t come between Terri and Jeff.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs