This law will help us identify and catch terrorists in our midst before they have an opportunity to strike.
They would like the troublemakers in their midst to be dealt with.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
Midst — Midst, n. [From middest, in the middest, for older in middes, where s is adverbial (orig. forming a genitive), or still older a midde, a midden, on midden. See {Mid}, and cf. {Amidst}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The interior or central part or place; the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
midst — [ mıdst ] noun uncount * in the midst of something FORMAL 1. ) while something else is happening: Nixon went to China in the midst of a crisis at home. 2. ) if you are in the midst of something, you are doing it or it is affecting you: Our… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
midst — [midst, mitst] n. [ME middest, prob. merging of middes, gen. of mid (with unhistoric t) + middest, superl. of mid,MID1] the middle or central part: now mainly in phrases as below prep. Old Poet. in the midst of; amidst; amid SYN. MIDDLE in our… … English World dictionary
midst — is now most commonly used in the phrases in the midst of or in our (etc.) midst, meaning ‘among, in the middle of’. Typical contexts are both physical and abstract: • There was…something sinister about this place, unhusbanded and yieldless in the … Modern English usage
Midst of Budapest Apartment — (Будапешт,Венгрия) Категория отеля: Адрес: 1061 Будапешт, Király utca 1 … Каталог отелей
Midst — Midst, prep. In the midst of; amidst. Shak. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
midst — archaic or literary ► PREPOSITION ▪ in the middle of. ► NOUN ▪ the middle point or part. ● in our (or your, their, etc.) midst Cf. ↑in your/their midst … English terms dictionary
Midst — Midst, adv. In the middle. [R.] Milton. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
midst — index center (central position) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
midst — (n.) c.1400, from M.E. middes (mid 14c.), from MID (Cf. mid) + adverbial genitive s. The parasitic t is perhaps on model of superlatives (Cf. AGAINST (Cf. against)) … Etymology dictionary
midst — middle, *center, core, hub, focus, nucleus, heart … New Dictionary of Synonyms
