Talk:abreast

Relation to “breast”

 * Title added. —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 09:32, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

How does "breast" relate to "abreast"? This is not clear in the etymology, nor in the breast entry. Tooironic 02:43, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Good question – a- is a rather complex prefix, and I’ve explained the use in the etymology; here it’s in the sense “on, of”, meaning roughly “breast-by-breast” (side-by-side, chests in line).
 * —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 09:32, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

Idioms
be or keep abreast of, be informed about --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:58, 27 December 2020 (UTC)