I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a storm is brewing (= is likely to start soon )
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He could feel that a storm was brewing.
home brew
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
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His face was like something brewed up out of spit and bile.
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At lunchtime, when everyone was brewing up , the navigator plotted all those little legs on to a map.
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In 1983, microbiologist Julian Adams dis-covered a clue when he brewed up a soup of cloned E. coli bacteria.
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The Hot Pot can not fire this turn and may not fire next turn while a fresh pot is brewed up .
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I think it's as well I did, especially in view of what's brewing up now.
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And he's hoping to brew up a shock for his old mates tonight.
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Barry Jones boiled over when he saw 63-year-old Vera brewing up for a local hospice on her day off.
■ NOUN
beer
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The Technical Committee looks at all aspects of brewing and serving beer .
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It monitors new developments in brewing and serving beer .
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A sign over the door proclaimed that the hostelry still brewed its own beer .
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If a woman brewed a better beer than her neighbours her house became the favoured one in the locality - the local.
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Those who wished to brew beer for their own household could use the abbey brewery - again upon a proportional payment.
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They brew as much beer in a day, as Morland produce at Abingdon in a week.
coffee
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One of us made a fire and we brewed coffee and lay in the autumn sun.
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The burning wood takes the edge off the morning cold, and it helps brew our coffee .
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The pudding went down like a dream, in blessed silence, and Christopher and Francis disappeared to brew coffee .
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Company also sells tea cups and pots as well as baked goods and brewed coffee .
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Back indoors, she brewed coffee and ate a hasty breakfast before settling down to work.
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Coffee brewed from ground coffee beans costs more than coffee made from an instant product.
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She got up, brewed a pot of coffee , went to her study and started work.
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While she went to brew coffee Fletcher introduced Patrick and Chris to the man who had been waiting in the sitting room.
pot
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She let herself in and ministered to their needs, brewing a pot of tea and lighting a good fire.
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After the game, Hicks would brew a pot of verbena tea and turn in early.
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She got up, brewed a pot of coffee, went to her study and started work.
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My next step will be to brew us a pot of chrysanthemum tea.
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It was ten o'clock; she brewed a pot of tea and made one more effort to contact Harris.
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We say nothing while she brews herself a pot of cherry almond.
storm
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All morning it has been calm but now we are threatened by a storm that has been brewing out to the west.
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It just munches grass, unaware of the ethical storm brewing around it.
tea
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She let herself in and ministered to their needs, brewing a pot of tea and lighting a good fire.
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The extract from an herb can be either brewed in a tea or taken directly into the mouth.
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It was ten o'clock; she brewed a pot of tea and made one more effort to contact Harris.
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Edusha brewed tea , putting herring roe, cheese, and butter on the table.
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They would sit in the lavatories and brew up tea in a can by holding a candle underneath.
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I brewed tea and drank it.
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Having eaten it, he brewed some tea and took her a cup.
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Edusha brewed some tea and found half a loaf of bread, some butter and cheese.
trouble
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But trouble is brewing for the present Lord Mayor.
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The message was clear: Atmospheric trouble was brewing .
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By then it was clear that fresh trouble was brewing in the Angoumois.
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What trouble is brewing with the excess carrier?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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An argument is brewing over the tax cuts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any wonder that there is a campaign-finance scandal brewing in Washington?
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Health-care bonds anywhere are risky these days, especially with changes brewing in Medicare and Medicaid.
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His face was like something brewed up out of spit and bile.
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My next step will be to brew us a pot of chrysanthemum tea.
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She let herself in and ministered to their needs, brewing a pot of tea and lighting a good fire.
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The pudding went down like a dream, in blessed silence, and Christopher and Francis disappeared to brew coffee.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
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For example, in beer advertisements there is a strong appeal to working class loyalty, often to particular, local brews .
potent
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Nationalism - from Prague to Paris, from Berlin to Budapest - is a potent , perilous brew .
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As for the potent brew itself, that won't be ready until Christmas.
■ NOUN
home
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The communion wafers and wine, have been replaced with a wholemeal loaf and a bottle of home brew .
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Before I put the home brew in them, I had an obsession to get the dirt out.
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It took three pints of home brew , each, before we stopped scratching.
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So will Geoff branch out with his home brew .
■ VERB
make
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He must have got enough Nescafé there to make brews for the whole of Frankfurt.
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Mary made her special brews to take the swelling down.
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Television, oil spills and dying animals make a strong political brew .
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Together the rumours and the snippets of information, the suspicions and the lies, make a pretty fearful brew .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A change into dry clothes before gearing up and a quick brew .
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As for the potent brew itself, that won't be ready until Christmas.
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Each brew master was a craftsman with a personalized understanding of how beer should taste.
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Earl Grey never seemed such a decent chap, and we laze back to enjoy his brew .
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In the days when most types of beer were dark, wheat brews were seen as being relatively pale and often cloudy.
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Off we went to a rickety bar in Sabinal Mextown and spent an hour sopping up the brew .