English Explanatory Dictionary

cross the streams

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To bring together two very disparate things, or things that the speaker thinks should be kept separate.

Word forms

cross the streams crosses the streams crossing the streams crossed the streams

Etymology

Allusion to the 1984 film Ghostbusters, in which the characters are warned not let the energy streams from their proton packs cross, in order to avoid a catastrophic explosion.

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