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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—A

Abreast

Side by side, the breasts being all in a line.

The ships were all abreast—i.e., their heads were all equally advanced, as soldiers marching abreast.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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