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swim with sharks

swim with sharks verb: to operate among dangerous people.

Verb

swim with sharks (third-person singular simple present swims with sharks, present participle swimming with sharks, simple past swam with sharks, past participle swum with sharks)

  1. (idiomatic) To operate among dangerous people.

Forms of swim with sharks

third-person singular presentswims with sharks
present participleswimming with sharks
pastswam with sharks
past participleswum with sharks

Questions about swim with sharks

What does swim with sharks mean?
Swim with sharks means to operate among dangerous people.
What part of speech is swim with sharks?
Swim with sharks is a verb.
What is the past tense of swim with sharks?
The past tense of swim with sharks is swam with sharks.

Words near swim with sharks in the dictionary

  1. swim shorts
  2. swim the Thames
  3. swim the Tiber
  4. swim trunks
  5. swim upstream
  6. swim with sharks
  7. swim-bladder
  8. swim-bladders
  9. swim-in
  10. swim-inner
  11. swim-inners

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