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idiompick up the threads (of) BrEBrE1 to start to live your normal life again, after it has been interrupted by an unpleasant event or an important change:Of course I'm pleased to be free, but it will be hard to pick up the threads after two years in prison.It has taken a long time for the people of Warrington to pick up the threads of normal life after the devastating IRA bomb attack.2 to continue a process or activity that has been stopped for quite a long time:The Loch Ness and Morar Project picked up the threads of the 1962 Loch Ness Investigation.Smith knew that to pick up the threads of the work he had done fifteen years ago would be a difficult task.
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