noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chicken
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Kalchu went to the chicken coop and lifted the hatch.
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The night came down around us, and it was dark by the time we reached the chicken coop .
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Snared rabbits: slept in a chicken coop: down in the underworld of docks.
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One burned the chicken coop to the ground.
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She walked round and lifted one of the slats from the roof of the lean-to chicken coop .
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When the men were building a new chicken coop , she would go out and help in whatever way she could.
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Apparently it's £50K on the table, £30K in the shower and £75K in the chicken coop ...
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He would go out and wander over to the chicken coop .
■ VERB
fly
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Then Deutschlandsender made their announcement yesterday that Hess had flown the coop and I think that clinched it for them.
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If a hawk flies over their coop , they scurry to shelter; if a pigeon, they do not.
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Plus it discourages funds that have already flown the coop from changing course and heading home again.
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The Tomahawk cruise missile, born in 1972 and built here ever since, has flown the coop .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fly the coop
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All my children have flown the coop now.
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Plus it discourages funds that have already flown the coop from changing course and heading home again.
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The Tomahawk cruise missile, born in 1972 and built here ever since, has flown the coop.
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Then Deutschlandsender made their announcement yesterday that Hess had flown the coop and I think that clinched it for them.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another story tells of a fox that stole a chicken from his coop and returned the bird alive.
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If a hawk flies over their coop , they scurry to shelter; if a pigeon, they do not.
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One burned the chicken coop to the ground.
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Plus it discourages funds that have already flown the coop from changing course and heading home again.
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She walked round and lifted one of the slats from the roof of the lean-to chicken coop .
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Since the crisis, the manager explains, the coop has not been able to afford fertilizers.
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Then Deutschlandsender made their announcement yesterday that Hess had flown the coop and I think that clinched it for them.