pick up the threads
English
Verb
pick up the threads (third-person singular simple present picks up the threads, present participle picking up the threads, simple past and past participle picked up the threads)
- (idiomatic) To resume an activity after an interruption; to pick up.
Further reading
- “pick up the threads”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “pick up the threads”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “pick up the thread(s)”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “pick up the threads of sth”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “pick up/take up the threads” (US) / “pick up/take up the threads” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
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