Idiom
summer and winter
Meaning
To spend extended periods of time with; to test.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You must summer and winter with someone to know them well.”
“Before you decide to move in together, you should summer and winter with your partner to see how you handle daily life.”
“True friendship is rarely forged in a moment, but rather through the long process of summering and wintering with another person through every season of life.”
Examples
simple
“You must summer and winter with someone to know them well.”
contextual
“Before you decide to move in together, you should summer and winter with your partner to see how you handle daily life.”
complex
“True friendship is rarely forged in a moment, but rather through the long process of summering and wintering with another person through every season of life.”
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