crossed paths
Ran into someone
Crossed paths describes an encounter between people, especially an unplanned or coincidental one: We crossed paths at the conference last year.
The image is of two travelers whose routes intersect briefly before continuing in different directions.
Often used in past tense to acknowledge a prior meeting or connection: I'm glad our paths crossed.
- metCame upon someone
- encounterUnexpected meeting or confrontation
- chance encounterUnintended crossing of paths
- intersectionPoint where paths meet
- fatePredetermined course of events
destiny · twist of fate · meant to be · chance · collision · meeting · strangers · reunion · long lost · old friends · serendipity · coincidence · by accident · roads · junction · intertwined · converged · bumped
- coincidencescoincidence, happenstance, fluke, serendipity, synchronicity
- fatedestiny, fate, kismet, Moira, fated
- omensomens, omen, portent, portents, signs
- superstitionblack cat, broken mirror, Friday the 13th, walking under ladder, evil eye
- stranger tropesoutsider, loner, newcomer, foreigner, wanderer
crossed pathsparted ways
Ceased association mutually
drifted apart · diverged · grew apart · split up · lost touch
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