crossing paths
Lives briefly intersecting
Crossing paths describes two people meeting, especially by chance rather than arrangement: We crossed paths at the airport.
The image is of two travelers whose routes intersect briefly before continuing in different directions.
The phrase often implies a fleeting or coincidental encounter: I hope we cross paths again someday.
- encounterUnexpected meeting or confrontation
- chance encounterUnintended crossing of paths
- meetingGathering for discussion
- intersectionPoint where paths meet
- fatePredetermined course of events
twist of fate · destiny · meant to be · chance · serendipity · collision · rendezvous · coincidence · run into · bump · converge · intertwine · roads · strangers · reconnect · junction · unexpected · momentary
- encountersencounter, meeting, chance encounter, run-in, close encounter
- Cat Lorecat goddess, familiar, witch's cat, familiars, black cat
- meet-cutescoffee spill, spilled coffee, mistaken identity, spilled drink, wrong door
crossing pathsparting ways
Ending association with another
diverging · drifting apart · splitting up · ships passing in the night · separating
crossing pathskeeping apart
keeping distance · staying in one's lane · keeping to oneself
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