adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
above all (else) (= used to say that something is more important than anything else )
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Max is hard-working, cheerful, and above all honest.
Anyone else
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Anyone else who is interested in going on the trip should see me at the end of this lesson.
anyone else
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Do you know anyone else who wants a ticket?
anything else
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You can write about swimming, skiing, or anything else you enjoy doing.
anything else
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Would you like anything else to eat?
anywhere else
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I don’t want to live in London, but I’d be happy living anywhere else .
anywhere else
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Have you been anywhere else in Spain?
everyone else
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Of course everyone else thought it was hilarious!
everything else
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Apart from the bus arriving late, everything else seemed to be going according to plan.
everywhere else
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The south should remain dry, but everywhere else will have heavy rain.
If all else fails
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If all else fails , you may be advised to have an operation.
nothing else mattered
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At last she was with the man she loved and nothing else mattered .
nothing else
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There was nothing else the doctors could do.
or else
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You must do the job yourself or else employ someone else to do it.
or else
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I had to defend myself or else he’d have killed me.
or else (= used to threaten someone )
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You’d better hand over the money, or else .
or else
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It’s obviously not urgent or else they would have called us straight away.
somebody else (= a different person )
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If you can’t make it Friday, we can invite somebody else .
someone else (= a different person )
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Can you ask someone else to help you? I’m really busy.
something else (= a different one )
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The house was too small, so they decided to look for something else .
somewhere else (= in a different place )
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Go and play somewhere else – I’m trying to work.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
fail
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When all else fails they will eat reptiles, including monitor lizards and sometimes even fish.
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If all else fails , call your cable company.
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When all else fails , disciplinary procedures instigated properly and fairly are one of the few protections the public has.
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If all else fails , you may be advised to have an operation to relieve the pressure on the nerve.
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If all else fails , consult a vet.
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The strength of the court used to be that, when all else failed , trust continued to repose there at least.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
... or/and whatever (else)
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And the same thing applies to people who have collections of quite valueless things: baskets, keys, hats or whatever .
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And then they go and tell their friends that it's either good or bad or whatever .
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I was feeling like I had to wrap things up and get dinner for the kids, or whatever .
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It favors close-up pictures and whatever can be seen in the immediate foreground.
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Learning about landscape design, you know - using natural features, hills or rivers or whatever - and improving on it.
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Politics, sexuality or whatever , must be a framework to build on, not a rigid cage which restricts change.
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There was a swift flow of air through the room, and whatever it was moved and sat down on the chair.
be something else
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You're really something else, Jeff.
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But to see them as marginal or peripheral is something else again.
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However, there is something else to consider.
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Red, though, is something else.
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Sorting through his things was something else entirely.
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There is something else, though.
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There was something else in them.
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Those two clubs are something else.
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Um, there was something else I want to ask you too.
if nothing else
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If nothing else, the report points out the need for better math education.
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It's boring, but if nothing else, I can get my homework done.
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And a strike, if nothing else, creates lots of opportunities.
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At the very least, if nothing else is available, works should be rinsed with lots of cold water.
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Everybody knew each other, and had grown up in proximity, if nothing else.
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Good manners, if nothing else, decreed that she stayed.
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On this, if nothing else, both left and right can certainly agree.
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The formulation of classifications provides, if nothing else, mental exercise for geomorphologists.
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There must be a Rafferty son who could at least do some digging, if nothing else.
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Used to be that Republicans were if nothing else, civil human beings.
more ... than the rest/the others/everything else put together
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Andrea's obsessed with money -- she never thinks about anything else .
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Clayton needs someone else to help him.
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Everyone else gets to go - why can't I?
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Go and play somewhere else . I'm trying to work.
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Is there anything else to eat?
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Jamie's special. There's really no one else like him.
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She's wearing someone else 's coat.
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There's nothing else to do.
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What else can I get you?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anything else would have been inappropriate.
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By belonging to Sophie, I began to feel as though I belonged to everyone else as well.
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Failing all else , its feet will provide some indication of its ultimate adult size.
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Henry complains of her talking to some one else while dancing with him and compares a country dance to a marriage.
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It did not restrict corporate officials or anyone else , as individuals, from giving as much money as they liked.
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What about everyone else - ever been a mate, colleague, love-child of anyone who's ever played for us?
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Who else used to do it?