pick up the threads

English

Verb

pick up the threads (third-person singular simple present picks up the threads, present participle picking up the threads, simple past and past participle picked up the threads)

1. (idiomatic) To resume an activity after an interruption; to pick up.

Further reading

• “pick up the threads”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “pick up the threads”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “pick up the thread(s)”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “pick up the threads of sth”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “pick up/take up the threads” (US) / “pick up/take up the threads” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.