cross the streams
verbEtymology
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.
Definitions
To bring together two very disparate things, or things that the speaker thinks should be…
To bring together two very disparate things, or things that the speaker thinks should be kept separate.
- As we weave together our syndication and aggregation networks , we must remain acutely aware of each channel and where it sends or receives content to ensure that we don't cross the streams.
- Halo Diagnostics (or Dx for short) has raised a $19 million Series A to improve diagnosis of several serious illnesses by crossing the streams from multiple tests and making the improved process easily available to providers.
- You could certainly leave it to Johnson to cross the streams of this week’s two biggest news stories – lobbying and football.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for cross the streams. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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