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What does warp and woof mean?

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Noun
  1. The threads in a woven fabric, composed of the warp (threads running lengthwise) and woof (threads running crosswise) to create the texture of the fabric.
  2. (by extension) The fundamental structure of any process or system.
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And yet, until the age of experts, ethical issues were not thought of as separable from the warp and woof of the practices of everyday life.
God's words, the concept of godly government, are woven into the warp and woof of the fabric of our nation and this Constitution.
I leave as quietly as I entered, carrying with me privileged knowledge — the warp and woof as well as the quirks of this scholar's habitat.
He regretted that if such irresponsible, poisonous and aggressive speeches were not stopped, they would cause irreparable loss to the country's secular warp and woof.
This was a measurement of the perilous extent to which bad investments, financed by debt, had come to distort the warp and woof of the economy.
The very legend of the Old South, for example, is warp and woof of the Southern mind.

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