in pairs

English

Prepositional phrase

in pairs

1. 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