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The phrase "a loose thread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to refer to an unresolved issue or a detail that is not fully addressed, often in the context of a narrative or discussion.
Example: "As we reviewed the project, I noticed a loose thread in our strategy that we need to address before moving forward."
Alternatives: "an unresolved issue" or "a dangling detail".
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(On a map the highway looks like a loose thread).
Tying a loose thread through all this is the figure of Victoria.
But the tickle was only a loose thread dangling from my ankle-cropped trousers.
At Roy's house, life stops if so much as a loose thread appears on the carpet.
He tugged a loose thread in the fabric of Italian bourgeois respectability and kept pulling until nothing was left.
Brother Finbar dragged and dragged, then found a loose thread in the waistband and started ripping it.
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"Game Night" is, ultimately, a sort of cinematic comfort food, a rejection of any element that's regressive, a foreclosure of any loose thread or unhinged impulse — a declaration that, at least here, the adults are in charge.
Trim off any loose thread.
Trim around the edges for any loose thread.
"Her connection with humanity was a very loose thread.
The Solamere story comes across as a clumsily loose thread in the tangle of the Romney family's business and political interests and associations.
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