Is there a word for when you run into someone and both of you try to avoid each other and fail, repeatedly? [duplicate]
That's something I've always known as the sidewalk shuffle:
the awkward dance that results when two people approach each other from opposite directions, each attempts to move out of the other's way, and both end up moving in the same direction. Often followed by further ungainly movement, apologies, and awkward laughter.
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