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threading the needle
vb. (present participle of thread the needle English)
Usage examples of "threading the needle".
They seemed to have been everywhere and, here he felt cold threading the needle of his nerves, to have lived in times long dead.
Taking a deep breath, she picked up the needle and thread again and concentrated on threading the needle.
He went by two as if they were standing still, angling his way left and then right, threading the needle of space they had left between them.
With sight, you could do it, applying your knowledge of tactics, just as you did threading the needle of the Star-Hole.
As Galad began Threading the Needle, too slowly, for the fifth time, the other man's sword started the Swallow Takes Flight in an almost perfunctory manner.