come between

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.

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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.

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come between

to cause a relationship to become less close It wasn't religion that came between them but their very different personalities.

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