noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bad guy
fall guy
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Browne claims that the company was simply looking for a fall guy.
go-to guy
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He's the go-to guy for questions about spreadsheets.
good guys (= people who behave in a morally right way, for example in a film )
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I’m on the side of the good guys .
Guy Fawkes Night
Ritchie, Guy
tough guys
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one of football’s most notorious tough guys
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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As I have had reason to observe before, the malai medics weren't such bad guys .
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In one I had to sit all night in the woods, completely still, while the bad guys circled nearby.
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But the bad guys get a spanking, so the story had a modicum of morality.
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Nobody wants to be the bad guy anymore; nobody wants to say no.
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If you meet a bad guy , you lock him up.
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The one who is trying to do something is not the bad guy in this drama.
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I was booing and hissing the bad guys with the best of them, and I usually hate audience participation.
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At home Lucky is looking forward to once again playing Superman and capturing bad guys .
big
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His name is Ace. Big black guy .
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Larry Flynt presents the infamous pornographer as a likable slob who faced down the big guys and won.
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They said my father looked a bit like Clark Gable, bold and bad, by all accounts a big guy .
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Police officers and big guys in suits wearing earplugs, looking tense, had cordoned off a temporary pathway.
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He's a big guy , but he seemed to have got to like crying.
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A million bucks to you is peanuts, big guy .
black
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If a black guy tells it, it's not racist.
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There were four black guys in the car, late teens to early 20s.
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In fact these are not really black guys at all.
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Our guy , the black guy, was smarter than the white guys.
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Two black guys block our way.
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Two chauffeurs linger in the corner, one white with blond hair, the other a good-looking black guy .
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I pull, and the black guy stumble forward.
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As a black guy I find it definitely relates to everyday life.
good
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In the Godfather, Michael Corleone starts off as a good guy .
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This is a good group of guys , these are good guys.
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Tyler and I go back a few years. Good guy .
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You have to have good hosts, guys with different backgrounds and personalities.
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Hamlet kills his good old guy , as it happens.
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Nolte makes a good tough guy , as always.
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Remember how he wanted us to think he was a good guy at heart?
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She, too, has tried to distance herself from what she does best , but the good guys need her.
little
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Stay kerbside - yeah, that sick-looking little guy there.
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The little guy can sometimes wield the Freedom of Information Act to impressive effect.
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Against all forecasts, against all evidence, the little guy sometimes leads the invincible giant a merry dance.
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The idea of it is kind of cute: This little Frank guy is trying to find candy.
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They are hiding things from the little guy who is just trying to earn a dollar.
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We want the little guys to relate well with each other, relate well with all people...
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At that moment there came into my mind the image of that little guy with a moustache and I thought, dammit.
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So much for the little guy .
nice
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Andrew is a nice guy , but he has the brain of a husk.
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He seems like a nice enough guy , so you buy the book, you start to read it.
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But the Cambridgeshire result gives lie to the notion that nice guys can't win.
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Michael Coles is a really nice guy .
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It seems pretty convincing that nice guys do well in this game.
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He was a nice guy , a likable guy.
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We can see how, in Axelrod's meaning of the term, nice guys may finish first.
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What he was first was a heck of a nice guy .
old
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I didn't really hurt the old guy much.
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At least I can say that I do these old guys no real or lasting harm.
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Some of those old guys are still around, shaking their heads, wondering how long this foolishness will continue.
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Hamlet kills his good old guy , as it happens.
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Up and down the bar, old guys look away and touch their eyes.
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And the only employee I could see was an older guy with tattoos on both forearms who was stocking shelves.
poor
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The poor guy who made it did everything right except get those burr veneers properly adhered to the ground.
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She said that it was too bad about us, poor guys , but we were going to get mortared at midnight.
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Now that poor guy , charged with attempted rape and robbery.
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But one poor guy was slow to catch on.
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Can anyone help this poor , unfortunate guy ?
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But the poor paunchy guy had been stuffed into a jumpsuit from which he seemed to gasp for air.
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Elvis Presley's trying to sound like Dean Martin, and so is some poor guy in Waikiki.
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He had ten birdies in that score, but the poor guy took a six on the par four seventeenth.
tough
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He is a classic modern tough guy as well as being an Old Testament prodigal son.
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Nolte makes a good tough guy , as always.
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Unlike a good many tough guys who made it big in movies, Marvin didn't come from a particularly tough background.
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Fujimori knows a fellow tough guy when he sees one.
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It doesn't matter, tough guy .
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Think of the 10 toughest guys you know.
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Likes to kid everyone he's the big macho tough guy .
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This sounds tough on guys like Joe Smith and Latrell Sprewell, who have warred beginning to end this year.
white
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If a white guy does, it is.
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Our guy , the black guy, was smarter than the white guys.
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Maybe the black athletes are just psyching the white guys out.
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The white guys ultimately beat the red guys because they outnumbered them thousands to one.
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And to make matters worse, it was a white guy my mum had an affair with.
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Where are the white guys , period?
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Myself and a friend were the only white guys in the whole place, and it was great.
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This guy I met, that white guy?
wise
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Which just leaves De Niro, whose charismatic wise guy routine is disappointingly adequate and no more.
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But you better deliver the goods, wise guy .
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Confidence just got wise and the guys it got wise to are wondering where it has gone.
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He grabbed dance by the arm and led it into the world of city rhythms, wise guys and lovers.
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But to be honest, I like to see a little bit of a wise guy in my coaches.
young
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It's predominantly young guys , tattooed, with their shirts off.
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We have a lot of young guys .
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He was a handsome young guy with a head of well-oiled reddish hair.
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Two young guys named John and Tom.
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I walked up to one young guy in full get-up playing the tin whistle near the Harness and Saddle maker store.
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McGowan on one side of him, a young blond guy with cheekbones on the other.
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He attracts old guys in uniform and young guys in shorts who wouldn't dream of voting for anyone else.
■ NOUN
fall
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To this end, one of the younger Communist shop stewards in the plot had agreed to be the fall guy .
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Beamish, thought Henry, could be the fall guy .
■ VERB
get
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Will Robin solve the fiendish crimes? Get the bad guy ?
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Confidence just got wise and the guys it got wise to are wondering where it has gone.
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It depends what happens when I get through to that guy in Civitavecchia.
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It was a chance for us to get better-prepared for Denver and to get some guys healthy.
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If he got hurt, my guy used to suffer, too.
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I got guys out there helping me.
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She says they've got these guys and it's all right now, I can come out.
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Sometimes it takes a little bit longer to have guys get together.
meet
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I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent.
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So I met this guy called Donahue.
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I should love to meet the guy who thought up that one.
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Can I meet you guys for lunch today?
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Jimmy watched him, wondering how long it would be before he met up with this guy again on the street.
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Right away, what happens is that he meets his ideal guy .
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If you meet a bad guy , you lock him up.
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In the service, I met an impressive guy who had just passed the Massachusetts bar exam.
play
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I play a guy who finds love and then people try to take it away.
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The only thing that keeps Carolina from dominating people is Dean plays 11 guys .
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He could play the good guy so convincingly.
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Nine guys played , and nine guys accomplished something.
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A lot of times I play the guy who knows what to do, and that's not really me.
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Of course, any time you play these guys with Young scrambling and getting critical first downs it makes it tough.
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What makes me mad is I turn around and hear this after I played against these guys for three months.
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Or maybe play a bad guy .
see
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Do you want me to go and see the guy ?
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I just see it as a guy who went after his dreams.
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You hardly ever see them bothering with guys their own age.
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I saw a guy with a head the size of a bucket-the kind you put mops in.
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He just saw me as the guy who woke him up and sent him berserk.
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I wanted to see the guy who found a snake in his chimney.
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I've seen the Fire guys and they told me to ask for an Inspector Ball.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wise guy
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All right wise guy, I don't need to hear any more jokes out of you!
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But to be honest, I like to see a little bit of a wise guy in my coaches.
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But you better deliver the goods, wise guy.
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He grabbed dance by the arm and led it into the world of city rhythms, wise guys and lovers.
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Which just leaves De Niro, whose charismatic wise guy routine is disappointingly adequate and no more.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dave's a really nice guy .
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Is he the guy who used to live next door to you?
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There's some guy who wants to talk to you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But you only need a few guys like me and you could.
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I've put the finger on seven members of the ring since lunch, but the big guy is slippery.
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I saw a guy with a head the size of a bucket-the kind you put mops in.
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It was sheer bloody hell listening to all those fatuous nincompoops saying what a great guy you are.
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Married veterans or guys who married when they got back had difficulties, too.
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Nine guys played, and nine guys accomplished something.
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These guys believed in what they were doing.
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Two chauffeurs linger in the corner, one white with blond hair, the other a good-looking black guy .