noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do the shopping/cleaning/ironing/cooking etc
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Who does the cooking in your family?
ironing board
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
board
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Joe could see the end of an ironing board , and somebody moving around.
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Dressing tables, bedside lights, linen and towels available, vacuum cleaner, iron and ironing board .
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Krups 125 Toasters will be £14.99, Brabantia ironing boards £24.99.
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At fifty-five his stomach was as flat as an ironing board .
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There was this big, fat woman with at least four chins and a huge fat neck standing at the ironing board .
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Therefore, he had prepared a hiding place behind the ironing board .
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The creaking of the ironing board , the crackle of corn-flakes and the occasional rustle of the newspaper were the only sounds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have one in my bedroom for ironing and one in the other bedroom that holds all my sewing materials.
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Instead of ironing , as she'd planned, she'd spend the evening with her sketchpad.
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Krups 125 Toasters will be £14.99, Brabantia ironing boards £24.99.
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The ironing would just have to wait!
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The hot smell of ironing mixed with that of garden-dried linen.
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The Manzi brothers, pictured here, are unafraid of clothes that suggest they need ironing .
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You could finish putting up shelves in the kitchen while he does the ironing .