I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coat collar
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He turned up his coat collar.
collar stud
dog collar
flea collar
wing collar
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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However, Gav's biggest collar is just around the corner.
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Julia turned the big collar of her fur coat up round her face and David took her arm.
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Half turning to adjust the big collar , her cheek brushed the back of his hand.
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When big round collars came in these were worn outside the neck.
clerical
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Opening the door a crack she saw a man in a clerical collar and a woman beside him.
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He certainly could not do it in a jacket, trousers, and shirt with a clerical collar .
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So the majority wore clerical collars and the ones who did not knew what they were doing.
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I noticed that he wore one of his own clerical collars round his neck.
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Otherwise, a dark suit, clerical collar , dark hat, raincoat, and they can give me a Military Cross.
high
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His dark hair had been trimmed and lay tidily against the high collar of the grey, swallow-tailed suit jacket.
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She was wearing a deep purple traveling dress with a high collar .
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But comfort is vital - so avoid very tight waistbands, very high collars or shoes which pinch.
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A beautiful pale-auburn fox down to your ankles, with a high collar to turn up.
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It was blue with a high red collar and I thought it cheap-looking and ugly.
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He was dressed in a Victorian morning suit, high starched collar , watered-silk cravat.
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The small detachable hood is fixed on to a high neck collar with press studs and the drawcord pulls in tight.
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The high collar is good for protecting your neck from draughts.
hot
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The other customers were almost as hot under the collar as Phyllis, but for very different reasons!
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But they get hot under the collar about trips behind the old Iron Curtain.
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Other times people got distinctly hot under the collar .
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Read in studio Two leading ice cream manufacturers are getting hot under the collar in a row over trade.
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And people can also get pretty hot under the collar on Central Weekend.
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Third, people should get hot under the collar when presented with dreary architecture.
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And you don't have to spend hours struggling with a awkward pins while you get hot over the collar .
open
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He wore a short-sleeved white shirt which was open at the collar and classic button-fly jeans.
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His open collar showed his neck, and he seemed to have lost weight.
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He was still dark from his summer tan, and wore a short sheepskin coat and a shirt with an open collar .
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He emerged in loafers, a blazer and a shirt with an open collar .
stiff
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He wore pince-nez spectacles, a round-ended stiff collar , and a moustache.
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He dressed like a dandy in a Prince Albert coat, derby hat, and stiff collar .
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He was also more formal than she had ever seen him, his suit and stiff collar making him look quite different.
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He scratched his neck under his stiff collar , smoked cigarettes, and sucked mints to make his breath smell good.
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He was a bony young man with slicked-down hair and a stiff white collar several sizes too large.
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The men had taken off their stiff collars , but were still uncomfortable in waistcoats and tight trousers and big boots.
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Oh yes! and stiff collars .
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He had white hair and a white moustache and was dressed in a dark suit and stiff white collar .
white
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But for the sheer number of performances, there has been nothing to compare with the serial trials of white collar criminals.
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Beyond that, however labor markets are no longer a simple matter of distinguishing between white and blue collars .
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Bosses at Ford also announced 1,180 job losses on top of an expected 2,000 white collar redundancies.
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About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal.
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And talking of white collars ... all accountants in Hong Kong are already taking a position on 1997.
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Father O'Harte, easing his little white collar , for it was a hot day, sighed deeply.
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I admire, irritated, his black shoes with their liquorice laces, his watch, the white collar of his rank.
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She was wearing a long red dressing gown with a wafting white feather collar .
■ NOUN
bone
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Sandra is still under sedation in hospital, suffering from internal injuries and a broken collar bone .
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Bruises on Maria were pronounced and regular proof of assaults, culminating in the broken collar bone of the previous October.
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The inquest in Cardiff heard doctors failed to spot Alison had also broken her collar bone .
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He had multiple fractures down his right side, including a smashed collar bone and arm.
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The motorcyclist, Ian Clague, of Bentley, suffered a broken collar bone .
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A fussy neighbour broke his collar bone building barricades against the hippies.
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To them, recovering from a broken collar bone in the opulent surroundings of Clarence House, would be luxury.
flea
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The first 50 winning postcards will be sent a Sherleys flea collar .
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In this group were veterans who had worn flea collars in the Gulf to ward off desert bugs.
fur
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He was clad in a long dark coat with a fur collar , and a scarf.
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She was wearing a fur hood and a Melton cloth coat with a huge fur collar .
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Edusha had dolled herself up and wore a fur collar and carried a muff.
lace
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Carews in lace collars and bucket boots; in Ramillies wigs and steel breastplates.
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The child had worn a purple suit with a lace collar .
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It was bright pillar-box red with a white lace collar and cuffs.
shirt
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As he opened the front door to his rooms, his shirt collar was slightly damp.
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The water had worked its way down inside his shirt collar .
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Loosen tie &038; undo top button of shirt so that shirt collar bows out and tie arches forward like a cup handle.
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I would sweat so hard that my shirt collar turned white from the salt leached out from my body.
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Though it was a warm day, he was wearing his old faded high-necked sweater with a frayed shirt collar showing.
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His jacket size varies between 62 and 64, with a 22-inch shirt collar .
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I loosened my shirt collar and watched a couple of generals being saluted by their chauffeurs.
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She takes my arm, grabs me by the shirt collar , pulls me close, pulls me into her life.
stud
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He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.
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She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links.
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The tray contained buttons, collar studs and various other bits and pieces.
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And oh, the panic this morning when she lost a collar stud .
velvet
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Her arms were around his neck, and her hands lay on the velvet collar of his coat.
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Eva they decked out in the gold trimmings for a General, set on a pink velvet collar with a lace edge.
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An expensive-looking man in a black coat with a velvet collar was appraising a painting.
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Unhooked a smart black overcoat with a velvet collar .
wing
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But modern wing collars , frankly, don't work.
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If you insist on wearing a made-up tie, wear a shirt with a turned-down collar , not a wing collar.
worker
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About half the 6,000 white collar workers are likely to be made redundant in response to the shrinking market for coal.
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Though most managers recognised the remarkable achievements of the machinists, the programmers were unhappy that blue collar workers remained in control.
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Almost thirty percent of the the population are employers, managers or white collar workers with just under six percent unskilled labourers.
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The report demonstrated that the 1980s austerity measures had disproportionately affected blue collar workers in comparison with white collar workers.
■ VERB
grab
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He grabbed her collar , dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll.
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Toos grabbed me by my collar .
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He wades in among the pair of them, grabs their studded leather collars and starts yanking them away.
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He wanted to vault over the desk and grab Wilkinson by the collar .
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Finally he grabbed him by the collar , and with a spasmodic effort tipped him off the wharf into the canal.
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Lorton grabbed his collar and pulled him back.
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The man who had agreed with Clive grabbed Nina's jacket collar and tried to rip down her back.
loosen
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Later still hands loosened her collar .
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Harry felt stiflingly hot, choking almost, as he loosened his collar .
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He loosened his collar , attempted to put a ruler between his teeth, and failed.
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I loosened my shirt collar and watched a couple of generals being saluted by their chauffeurs.
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She hurried over to him and loosened his collar .
pull
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He had put on his overcoat and was pulling the collar up about his ears.
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He pulled his collar up and his stocking cap down and headed the other way.
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Tabitha Jute pulled up the collar of her old foil jacket and strode off past the concession stalls, looking for transport.
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Billy Tolboys pulled up the collar of his ancient leather overcoat and hunched down even deeper into the motorcycle sidecar.
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I pulled up my coat collar and sprinted along the platform and into the shelter of the waiting room.
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She pulled the collar of her jacket up.
put
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For work, put on chainstore collar and tie.
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I put my collar up and my hands into my pockets.
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I put on a clean collar and go along, happy just to observe.
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They needed to put a little blue collar -- Carolina blue, if you will -- into all that pompous purple.
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See if you can get a cab, while I put my collar on.
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As the teacher put the collar on Sherman he continued to point at the picture and bark very loudly.
turn
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Ludo and I turn our collars up against the chill April evening, and ram our hands in our coat pockets.
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I turned my collar inside out.
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Outside the hotel Maggie turned up the collar of her mac.
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Julia turned the big collar of her fur coat up round her face and David took her arm.
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I turned up my coat collar to meet my hat brim and hunched defensively, like a bedraggled bird.
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He turned up his coat collar and gave his eyes time to adjust to the thickness of the night fog.
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I turned up the collar of my fake biker's jacket and walked off.
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He turned up his coat collar , walked forward.
wear
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This is why it is essential that they should wear a collar with a name tag attached at all times.
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Always wore a collar , even in the fields.
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The head twists out as if the skin is wearing an old fashioned collar that's too tight for comfort.
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Wildlife managers have been tracking bobcats wearing radio collars and know that they still are in the area.
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Cattle wore collars of rowan wood to protect them from spells and curses.
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In this group were veterans who had worn flea collars in the Gulf to ward off desert bugs.
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When she wore the collar , she ate only with the utmost difficulty.
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Elvis wore them with the collar turned up and all the attitude he could muster.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
get hot under the collar
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But they get hot under the collar about trips behind the old Iron Curtain.
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Read in studio Two leading ice cream manufacturers are getting hot under the collar in a row over trade.
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Third, people should get hot under the collar when presented with dreary architecture.
surgical stocking/collar etc
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Paramedics treated the driver of the second car for shock and applied a surgical collar to the policeman.
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This time we had the welcome addition of a sheepskin backrest, an inflatable neck support and a selection of surgical collars.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Choker collars and straw-topped hats between the Wars. 4.
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He emerged in loafers, a blazer and a shirt with an open collar .
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I turned up the collar of my fake biker's jacket and walked off.
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Last week, Helen excelled herself - a black matt waterproof, lined, with a turn-back collar of fake ocelot!
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She closed her eyes and let her fingers burrow through the tissue paper until she felt the lace of the collar .
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Tabitha Jute pulled up the collar of her old foil jacket and strode off past the concession stalls, looking for transport.
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The other customers were almost as hot under the collar as Phyllis, but for very different reasons!
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Under his chin the bandage was like a military collar .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hugh was quickly collared by a salesperson.
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Seventeen Florida panthers have been collared.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Color: Light blue collars a pale neck, behind writhe thick green vines, exploding ultramarine blooms.
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He collared a chilli-bean pie, a couple of samosas and an almond slice at 15p each.
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He can't face the head's study, so he collars Potter in the hall.
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So I whispered to Mowat to collar the other feller.