Timeline for How to describe situation when two people can't meet?
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| Oct 17, 2020 at 20:19 | history | edited | T.Dabrowski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 17, 2020 at 2:26 | comment | added | Hot Licks | They both have the last name "Pauli". | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 23:20 | comment | added | jsw29 | Are you asking for one word that is a substitute for the whole of can't meet (which is what the actual formulation of the question implies) or just for a substitute for meet that is suitable for these contexts (which is how all the answerers so far seem to have interpreted it, and which is implied by your reactions to their answers)? | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 19:57 | answer | added | Jim | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 19:49 | comment | added | Mitch | 'two ships passing in the night' is a common metaphor for a fleeting encounter but missing each other the rest of the time. | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 19:13 | answer | added | George White | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 18:12 | history | edited | T.Dabrowski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2020 at 18:01 | answer | added | Nuclear Hoagie | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 17:54 | history | edited | T.Dabrowski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2020 at 16:10 | comment | added | Weather Vane | They have incompatible schedules. | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 15:53 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | There is the expression 'Box and Cox': 'Box and Cox, farce (1847) by John M. Morton †1891 English playwright, and Cox and Box, comic opera (1867) with text by Sir Francis C. Burnand †1917 English playwright and music by Sir Arthur S. Sullivan †1900 English composer, adapted from Morton's farce; from the arrangement in the farce and opera whereby the same room is rented to two men named Box and Cox, one occupying it by day and one by night without either's knowing about the other.' [M-W] But obviously not for friends. | |
| Oct 16, 2020 at 15:46 | history | edited | KillingTime | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 16, 2020 at 15:35 | history | asked | T.Dabrowski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |