in the middle of
Between two extremes
In the middle of indicates being at the center point or halfway through something.
Most often it marks an ongoing activity that hasn't concluded: I'm in the middle of cooking dinner, She called while I was in the middle of a meeting.
The phrase can signal spatial position in the middle of the room or temporal location in the middle of the night.
It often implies interruption or inconvenient timing.
- midstCentral area within
- in the midst ofSurrounded by, during
- centerMiddle of anything
- dead centerPrecise middle point
- smack dabPrecisely in position
knee-deep · core · in the thick of · betwixt · immersed · heart · in between · waist-deep · neck deep · up to here · surrounded · among · crowd · midpoint · ongoing · engaged · in progress · halfway
in the middle ofat the edges
on the edge of · outside of · apart from · out of · beyond
in the middle ofbefore
Prior in time
after · prior to · following · at the close of · finished with
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