adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a strange/funny/odd smell
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What’s that funny smell?
a strange/peculiar/odd habit
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He had a lot of peculiar habits, one of them being to stare at you without blinking.
a terrible/stupid/odd etc thing to say
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I know it’s a terrible thing to say, but I wish he’d just go away.
a trifle eccentric/odd/unexpected etc
an odd number (= 1, 3, 5, 7 etc )
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You can’t work in pairs if you’ve got an odd number of people.
it strikes sb as strange/odd etc that
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It struck me as odd that the man didn’t introduce himself before he spoke.
odd assortment
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an odd assortment of knives and forks
odd jobs
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I’ve got a few odd jobs to do this weekend.
odd socks (= socks that are not a pair )
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He was wearing odd socks – one blue one and one black one.
sb's/sth's odd/strange appearance
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Children sometimes stared at him because of his odd appearance.
strange/odd
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As we looked at each other I had a strange sensation.
strange/odd/peculiar/funny
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The sweets had a rather peculiar taste.
taste funny/odd/strange
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These fruit drinks taste a bit funny until you get used to them.
(there is) something different/odd/unusual about sb/sth
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There was something rather odd about him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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So this struck me as odd .
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Not often shipped out in quantities, specimens are usually acquired as odd fish found in Redline Rasbora collections.
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Something struck him as odd about the number of books cited for the new library.
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He's as odd as the rest of them really.
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Krankoor is as odd a name as Cranko.
how
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Ideas must not be rejected, irrespective of how odd they are.
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And I had gone thirty-seven years into my life without realizing how odd the gaps in my knowledge were.
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Clibber and Butterworth; how odd that I cans till remember their names.
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He seems to mean it. How odd !
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But how odd that she couldn't remember!
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Paul speaks of suing for it before the praetor fideicommissarius. How odd .
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I had become a current affair - how odd !
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And how odd that after Downing St., not a single officer could be seen in Whitehall.
rather
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Locally, conservation was known about, but it appeared in some rather odd guises.
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In light of the research the experts reviewed, their conclusions were rather odd .
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But even as it is, you get something rather odd .
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That is, after all, a rather odd thing for a scientific hypothesis to do.
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It is also rather odd , in that no etymology of it is known.
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This is because, despite its great charm, it does look rather odd to most cat-lovers.
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The rather odd character of the formula called for considerable ingenuity in the enterprise.
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Jessamy was beginning to find it rather odd to be having this day out with her husband.
so
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She said something I found so odd that my vision of the world faintly changed and my despair lessened.
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He said it was all so odd .
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It would have looked so odd .
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Well, it just seems so odd .
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It's very kind of you but - but so odd .
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It seemed so odd to think that they didn't know.
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Clara even grew quite fond of Mrs Hill, and proud of herself for feeling fond of one so odd .
very
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We went up to the ward, by which time he was making very odd , rasping sounds as he breathed.
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It was a very odd fin, and why was the creature swimming so slowly?
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Emmie felt very odd: a little frightened but chiefly bored and irritated.
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It was very odd that tiny Hsu Fu was so much steadier than the big long-range cutter.
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I have spent years using buses, and seem to have a knack of sitting next to some very odd people.
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The whole story sounded very odd .
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I must say again that it is very odd for me to have to describe all this for you.
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Anyway, it was a very interesting short weekend and I learnt some very odd things, all about the wonderful Gwendoline.
■ NOUN
angle
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And a couple of Action Man dolls in uniform, their limbs splayed at odd angles .
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Like Los Alamos, it was cradled by mountains and hastily built in order to win a war from an odd angle .
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His head, she realised was at an odd angle .
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Fun-house reflections: deformations and odd angles .
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The streets went off at odd angles .
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His feet turned capricious, slipping off at odd angles .
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As the building went up, the cross-section changed: the floors became smaller, with more odd angles and corners.
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The trees lean at odd angles , like flowers in a vase.
assortment
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He brought in as ministers an odd assortment of incompetent relations and hangers-on.
bit
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Established artists did the odd bit of teaching, sat on jury panels and chaired cultural meetings.
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Like most interstates, it was an odd bit of space, a nar-row slot fenced by high trees.
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The grey lines patterned the green-brown earth like odd bits of carpet.
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My driving licences were still there and the odd bits of paper you always accumulate.
couple
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They are the classic odd couple .
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The playboy and the puritan made an odd couple , but they could use each other.
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They are the hottest odd couple in the presidential campaign.
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The odd couple had been together - privately and professionally - for more than 12 years.
day
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A few odd days of film work slotted neatly round that weekend, leaving her no ready excuse apart from cowardice.
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On odd days he would work on the novel.
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I couldn't even manage the children - friends took them for odd days .
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We've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year, but it's just the odd day basically.
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The Arbuthnots hunted on odd days with the Meath and Tom lived for the sport.
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There may be odd days , however, when a problem arises.
fish
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I would be inclined to remove the odd fish , though.
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Not often shipped out in quantities, specimens are usually acquired as odd fish found in Redline Rasbora collections.
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But the major struck him as an odd fish , rather.
job
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After his father died he did a lot of odd jobs , including shining shoes, boxing professionally and preaching.
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Never use wicker chairs to stand on for odd jobs around the house.
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She kept herself alive working odd jobs until she landed a position managing advertising accounts for a local magazine.
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Guys I really have worked for, briefly, doing odd jobs .
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Does odd jobs for Domestic Contacts.
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Tock the butler and odd job man about the school.
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Police say Avanesian got odd jobs , working to rebuild generators and alternators for auto-electrical shops in the area.
look
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He gave me an odd look as if I was telling strange stories.
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After her outburst, she now remained silent, darting odd looks of triumph at her betrayer.
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We received some odd looks from customers but most smiled and fussed over Spike &038; Molly.
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When I came down the proprietor gave me an odd look and said the gentleman was waiting for me outside.
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SHe noticed Tammuz flicking odd looks at the girl.
man
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When she married Glyn she would inherit this odd man too in a way.
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Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
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At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
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Joe and Rex could interact with one another, so the real odd man out was Loi.
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Why is it always the odd man out?
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It seemed there was no response that would cancel altogether my status as odd man out.
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Picture some one being treated as an odd man out - in a family, in an office or at a party.
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And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
number
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Clearly the northern fleet is being reinforced from the southern; but why the odd numbers ?
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I have no idea why it is always an odd number .
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An odd number of classes provides a neutral mid-point.
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Three arrangements with eight fences; five with ten fences ... odd numbers ... Was there a pattern?
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Erect verticals upon the odd numbers , 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
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An individual scorer might be useful where an odd number of people are concerned.
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You need to have an odd number of colours, including the background.
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Note that the verso always carries the even page number and the recto the odd number.
occasion
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On the odd occasion the jollities would get out of hand and the fists would fly.
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Not on the odd occasion , but each time they took this fit.
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However, on the odd occasion that I purchase fish elsewhere, I do quarantine the fish for two weeks.
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The 69-year-old man, from Elsdon Street, handed over the cash on odd occasions over the past year.
sensation
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At first there is the odd sensation of panic, the feel of coming to an alien city.
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Sam Fong experienced an odd sensation on seeing some one he had always thought to be his enemy.
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Yet when he lowered his arm Meredith had the odd sensation that she'd lost.
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So it produces an odd sensation to learn, again from Anna, that this superstition was in fact Dostoevsky's.
thing
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Acid did odd things to your mind.
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Why would they say such an odd thing ?
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He notices an odd thing about himself: he looks right.
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The odd thing was, Ogea was little better.
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She repeated what Rosalind Swain had said about odd things happening in adolescence, about adolescents harbouring poltergeists.
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The odd thing was that that house had a leak.
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It seems an odd thing to be grateful for.
things
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Acid did odd things to your mind.
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At that special level all sorts of odd things happened...
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She repeated what Rosalind Swain had said about odd things happening in adolescence, about adolescents harbouring poltergeists.
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We followed our directions to the letter, but as we approached our destination, odd things started to occur.
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Anyway, it was a very interesting short weekend and I learnt some very odd things , all about the wonderful Gwendoline.
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They drive people mad and make them do all sorts of odd things .
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Cheryl's been saying some odd things .
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Such odd things seemed to be happening.
way
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It is most likely to occur when the bird of prey is behaving in an odd way .
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At first speech returns-but in an odd way .
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Papa would think that an odd way to describe the Almighty dollar.
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In some odd way , I was heartened.
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In an odd way , that might have been easier to bear.
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She is a jock from a family of jocks, articulate only in that special, odd way that coaches are articulate.
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Surprise and a strange excitement; in some odd way , the incident seemed to mark a life-change.
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The raft looked tiny, vulnerable, but in an odd way , very seaworthy.
years
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There had been no sound in those days of course, twenty odd years ago now.
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In even-numbered years , I think, we need more and in odd years less.
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What he did would have looked classy even in today's harder, faster game of thirty odd years later.
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We've done it since the oldest was five, so why stop it now, a mere 20 odd years later?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
odd bod
odd fish/queer fish
smell wrong/fishy/odd etc
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And then you go out with some other woman and she smells wrong.
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So, in short, if a fish smells fishy it is an indication that it is going off.
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The Adkinsons' neighbors smelled wrong in the air, but pinched their noses closed and kept to themselves.
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Why does fish usually smell fishy?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an odd combination
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an odd sock
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Reynolds was an odd choice to host the show.
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Timber? That's kind of an odd name for a kid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apparently the odd arrangement was uninteresting to a teenager.
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He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
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I started out as a gofer, running errands for him and doing odd little jobs.
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One carried his dark jacket in an odd kind of bundle under one arm.
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She looked more odd than ever and her movements were beginning to stiffen.
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Spurred by some odd impulse, he threw the trowel as far as he could.
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There was an odd kind of silence.