adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bad/poor investment
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The shares turned out to be a poor investment.
a bad/poor/disastrous start
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Things got off to a bad start when two people turned up late.
a poor appetite
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A poor appetite may be a sign of illness.
a poor background
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His poor background prevented him from going to medical college.
a poor education (= not very good )
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She had a poor education, and left school without qualifications.
a poor nation
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The high cost of medicines in poor nations prevents many citizens from receiving health care.
a poor reader (= someone who is not good at reading )
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All these students had been judged to be poor readers.
a poor sense of sth
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Owls and other predatory birds have a poor sense of smell.
a poor/disappointing season
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It's been a disappointing season for Arsenal.
a poor/wealthy district (= where a lot of people are poor/rich )
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He lived in one of London’s poorest districts.
a terrible/poor/rotten liar (= who does not tell believable lies )
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You're a rotten liar, Julia. What really happened?
bad/poor
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Moles have very poor eyesight.
bad/poor
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Poor hearing can affect your social relationships.
bad/poor
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The city doesn’t deserve its bad reputation.
bad/poor/terrible
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A student with a poor memory may struggle in school.
bad/poor/terrible/awful
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Why do doctors have such terrible handwriting?
be in good/poor health (= be healthy/unhealthy )
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Her parents were elderly and in poor health.
desperately poor/ill/tired etc
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He was desperately ill with a fever.
dirt poor
good/bad/poor sportsmanship (= good or bad behaviour in a sport )
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We try to teach the kids good sportsmanship.
good/poor prognosis
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Doctors said Blake’s long-term prognosis is good.
good/poor visibility
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The search for survivors was abandoned because of poor visibility.
good/poor/proper hygiene
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The Consumers’ Association blames poor hygiene standards.
low/poor self-esteem (= not much self-esteem )
low/poor
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The pay levels have resulted in low morale within the company.
low/poor
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The report says the standard of children’s diet in Britain is poor.
poor boy
poor communication
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There was poor communication between the air traffic controllers and the aircraft.
poor concentration
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The boy had behavioural problems and suffered from poor concentration.
poor conditions
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The refugees are living in camps in very poor conditions.
poor discipline (= not enough clear and firm rules )
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Problems tend to arise in families where there is poor discipline.
poor little thing (= used to show sympathy )
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The poor little thing had hurt its wing.
poor (old) soul (= used to show pity for someone )
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The poor old soul had fallen and broken her hip.
poor sanitation
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Overcrowding and poor sanitation are common problems in prisons.
poor sight
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His sight was quite poor.
poor sod
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The poor sod 's wife left him.
poor
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He wanted to join the army but his health was too poor.
poor
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Why is his performance in school so poor?
poor (= not good for growing crops )
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It is poor land that should never have been farmed.
poor (= not good for growing plants )
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If the soil is poor, add manure or compost.
poor/bad (= with few crops )
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A series of poor harvests plunged them into debt.
poor/bad (= not bright enough )
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The light was too poor for me to read.
poor/defective
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Her vision was quite poor and she always wore glasses.
poor/good nutrition
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Poor nutrition can cause heart disease in later life.
poor/low
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The magazine is printed on low quality paper.
poor/unhealthy
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A poor diet affects your skin and hair condition.
positive/good/poor/negative self-image
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Depression affects people with a poor self-image.
strong/poor showing
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Women made a strong showing in the election.
the poor guy (= used when something bad happens to someone and you want to show sympathy )
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The poor guy was robbed of all his money.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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These days we have dealt very satisfactorily with the problem; we have made the rector as poor as the vicar!
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It was as poor here as anything he had experienced in the Borinage.
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The poll found 29 percent rated his performance as good, 42 percent as fair and 19 percent as poor .
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You are racist, as poor darling Donald was.
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We can treat lone parents as poor people, needing means-tested social assistance of some sort - as we do now.
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And Thomas Hudson, born as poor as herself and just as upward mobile, was gentility personified, sensibility made flesh.
desperately
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The unease is not restricted to the desperately poor , swampy country of 10m people.
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But the Valley remained desperately poor , with little possibility of economic expansion or improvement.
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Far from being desperately poor peasants, the squatters were clearly city dwellers.
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Children, the elderly, the desperately poor .
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The prices are still too high to allow more than a small number of people in desperately poor countries to be treated.
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It was that bust-up which ruined team morale this season and contributed to Lancashire's desperately poor season.
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He remained desperately poor and obstinately proud.
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Saint Antoine, south-eastern suburb of Paris, a desperately poor area in the eighteenth century, with many starving unemployed.
extremely
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For a very large female patient, or one who has extremely poor balance, a wraparound skirt may be more practical.
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The vehicles and major items of equipment of all sorts arrived in extremely poor condition.
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The rural areas contained 34 percent of poor families and 19 percent of extremely poor families.
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Unfortunately, the prospects for progress beyond an apparent willingness to agree to share responsibility for Hebron are extremely poor .
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If gamma shares are not liquid and tradeable, then pricing efficiency will be extremely poor .
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Despite all of the highfalutin gadgets, intelligence for the most part was extremely poor .
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Unfortunately, governments, aid agencies and the United Nations have an extremely poor record of being able to organise anything.
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Her memory is extremely poor and she can not sustain a normal conversation.
so
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Many people simply don't believe that Gen Pinochet's health is so poor .
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Among local community leaders there are differing opinions about why Tucson is so poor .
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Were they so poor that they couldn't afford to pay?
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I am certain that, in those days, the quality of food was so poor that eating was probably hazardous.
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Forest soils are so poor they can't support more than two or three seasons' crops.
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Around one third of pensioners are so poor that their basic state pension is topped up with other state benefits.
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But aid agencies report tens of thousands families so poor that they need help procuring flour, cooking oil and other basics.
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The light may be so poor that I can hardly see anything at all anyway.
too
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However, these were now too low and my prospects too poor for me to continue along that track.
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And the quality of many photographs in the 240-page paperback is too poor to be of any use.
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The Morans are too poor to afford cheap shoes.
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High-definition television, still getting off the ground, is sharper but still too poor for text.
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The family might be too poor to help, or not available due to death or emigration.
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Her boyfriend acknowledges the child, named Clifton, but comes from a family too poor to help out.
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The others, too poor in pocket or spirit, have children.
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For people who were too poor to leave home, it was the only path to higher education.
very
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Then there was a long drought which produced a very poor harvest.
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Since he him-self grew up very poor , he empathizes with other whites who are struggling economically.
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The outlook for this patient was very poor .
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The Agriculture Department said Monday the wheat crop in 19 states is in poor or very poor condition.
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She was starting at zero as she had very poor schooling due to ill health.
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It was a very poor neighborhood, old houses, unpaved streets.
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The merit of the project in relation to each criterion is assessed in terms of the five classes, ranging from very good to very poor .
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In the kitchen, the food continues to be cooked on a charcoal fire, the fuel of the very poor .
■ NOUN
boy
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I try to convince myself that it's conditioning, the poor boy and his fears of success.
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A third close friend, Ed Prince, learned early that poor boys whose fathers die young could not succeed at business.
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You can be the wealthiest man in Rio, or the poorest boy .
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David Copperfield about a poor boy who is mistreated by people that was very sad.
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He was a poor boy from Scarborough, who went to Manchester.
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The poor boys , innocent boys, the fragile flame of life snuffed out suddenly and so much candle left!
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The poor boy has been waiting, so patiently.
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The poor boy continued to fight with propriety in these fictions.
child
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The average shortfall of income beneath the poverty line for poor children has also fallen by 31.7 per cent.
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Y., all but accused Clinton of selling out poor children to help ensure his re-election.
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Schools with an intake of troubled poor children struggle in the league tables, lose children and lose money.
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When Rose was pregnant, Steve threatened to call the poor child after the book's narrator, Ishmael!
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But we still spend enough to provide Head Start to only a third of all poor children .
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In those days, poor children usually left school when they were thirteen.
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In 1877, she opened her first kindergarten for poor children , and eventually she supported thirty-one of them.
condition
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The one living at the hospital was found in a poor condition on the Aycliffe Industrial Estate.
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The Agriculture Department said Monday the wheat crop in 19 states is in poor or very poor condition .
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Use a heavy-duty solvent-based type instead if the roof surface is in very poor condition .
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The vehicles and major items of equipment of all sorts arrived in extremely poor condition .
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The long fast during the rut, together with fighting and mating, may leave the male in poor condition for the winter.
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Leaving behind low living standards and poor conditions in work and study seems more like rejection than adaptation.
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A police spokesman said the stolen car was in poor condition with a broken rear passenger window.
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Cattle were emaciated, under nourished and in poor condition .
country
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What started with high hopes for mutual support among poor countries was confounded by market forces.
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Today most of the women in poor countries work the land.
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The association lends money to the world's very poorest countries .
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Many experts doubt that capital and technology can be created fast enough in poor countries to keep up with the demand.
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In many poorer countries they long to send out workers, yet are frustrated through lack of resources.
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By these measures, the economic gap between the wealthier countries and the poorer countries is usually diminished.
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Many poor countries neglect their national parks.
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Campaigners argue that poor countries faced with a health emergency have a right under international trade legislation to buy generic drugs.
diet
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Factors such as stress and a poor diet can affect these hormone levels, worsening the symptoms.
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He said that three factors had caused my arteries to be blocked: heredity, poor diet , and lack of exercise.
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Eating and drinking: under-eating, over-eating, poor diet in general for whatever reason - choice, ignorance, poverty. 2.
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Or should they be blamed on inadequate medical care, poor diet or other environmental factors?
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They have a poor diet and look bad, and gradually care less and less about themselves and how others see them.
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So a poor diet can eventually have an effect on your hair condition.
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A poor diet , with low nutrient snacks can lead to nutritional deficiencies.
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All four are still suffering ill-health due to torture, poor diet and insanitary prison conditions.
family
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What actually happened was that a less doctrinaire magistracy put local taxes up in order to provide bread for poor families .
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As is to be expected, approximately 75 percent of the children come from poor families .
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The rural areas contained 34 percent of poor families and 19 percent of extremely poor families.
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Food be-came more accessible and convenient to all but the poorest families .
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The rural areas contained 34 percent of poor families and 19 percent of extremely poor families.
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Despite that, he believes the initiative will succeed in helping working poor families .
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Meanwhile, visiting relatives from Detroit or Rio will leave enough money to keep a poor family in food for months.
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The welfare plan still would end the basic guarantee of money to poor families .
girl
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When I congratulated the poor girl , she almost fainted.
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Terrified by the suffering of the poor girl , at the end of his patience and afraid, he abandons her.
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She was bored, poor girl .
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Some of the poor girls had a bad smell.
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The poor girl appeared to have had no idea.
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I have something here that might help you find the man who attacked the poor girl .
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My oldest daughter, poor girl , swelled up like an elephant.
health
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He began with his poor health .
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Both single people and unhappily married people report poorer health than peo-ple who are happily married or partnered.
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There is no doubt that many older people and their carers will look towards their doctors when illness and poor health intervene.
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Because of poor health , it was necessary for him to rest several hours a day in his study.
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Even during recent years of poor health , his outstanding qualities were riveting charm and mental vitality.
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No one should shoot up drugs because addiction, poor health , family disruption, emotional disturbances and death could follow.
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The monument, by Barzaghi, was completed when the writer was old and in poor health , as can been seen.
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Who could blame a wife, herself elderly and in poor health , for suggesting suicide to her terminally ill husband?
job
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But the government did a singularly poor job in getting its patient-centred message across.
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And really, what was the last poor job of lighting seen on Broadway?
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In the second, nervous disorders have no effect on absenteeism, despite the fact that they are caused by poor jobs .
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They understand what a poor job many public institutions do.
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Women participate in poorer jobs and in the tertiary sectors, areas which have suffered the most from peripheral capitalist development.
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He notes that employers identify problems stemming from inappropriate work attitudes or behaviors as the primary cause of poor job performance.
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Anya sits in the passenger seat, arms folded across her chest, making a pretty poor job of concealing her impatience.
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The poll found 27 percent of women voters think Wilson is doing a poor job , compared with 11 percent of men.
light
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Her tests for the relation between grammatical structure and context formation similarly show the unschooled Wolof children in a poor light .
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The poor light barely reached the chamber's four walls.
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The curtains in the flat were drawn, cutting down even the poor light that remained from outside.
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Then, having ensured that the match would finish so late, Moin complained about the poor light .
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Delgard paused at the top of the stairs, allowing his eyes to adjust to the poor light .
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Even if, in the poor light , you did see it, you would dismiss it.
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Should children attempt to read in poor light ?
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He glanced at his watch, bringing it close to his face because of the poor light .
man
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The poor man was exhausted by the end of the performance and his cardigan looked like a sack!
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You are rich and I am a poor man .
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In the end I got another doctor to sedate the poor man .
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Fortunately, Herbert 92X had shot a good man , a poor man, a family man from the ghetto.
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The subscriptions promised on that evening of £13.2s.6d, from a group of largely poor men , were sacrificial.
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The poor man had placed a great deal of trust in Robert Schuyler.
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His heart - his other lung - both lungs - the poor man was having a haemorrhage.
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No captain on the east coast made his men more money, and they were all poor; all poor men.
people
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They penalise poor people such as my constituent.
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It must be noted that the vast majority of poor people in the United States are women and children.
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Cant about the free market creating opportunities for poor people is meaningless when wealth calls all the shots.
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He also has donated thousands of dollars to poor people in the town for help in paying medical bills.
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The effect would be worst on their small projects ... the kind which help poor people the most.
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There are many poor people in the world; that in itself is a great injustice.
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And it is the race factor, the stereotype that most poor people are black, that holds the entire image together.
performance
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But still these are all proximate causes of poor performance .
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Education researchers have traced her poorer performance all the way back to elementary school.
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Even when monitoring can be done effectively, disciplining employees for poor performance is itself costly.
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Participation in one set of activities was often used to explain poor performance in other activities.
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Tony Armstrong, director of corporate affairs at Northern Rock, defended the company's poor performance .
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The kind of symptoms; sluggish cars and poor performance .
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In addition it is difficult to attribute more errors or a poorer performance wholly to the effects of a body clock.
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Worse still, injuries are offered as excuses for poor performances .
quality
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After testing nine such cleaning firms, Which? magazine found many charged high rates for poor quality service.
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He had eaten in other rectories and had seen how deeply the poorer quality of meals could affect morale.
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Even the food in camp was of poor quality and there was little opportunity for relaxation.
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They can not risk using poor quality seed.
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You may be asked for a replacement photograph if the one you supply is of poor quality .
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Lunchtime drinking that leads to reduced or poor quality work in the afternoons is one example.
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Film left lying around the laboratory becomes dusty and scratched, and makes poor quality replicas.
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The alternative is a reinforcement of existing job segregation and a poor quality of future employment for both women and men.
relation
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Alternatively they may be subsumed within the department and treated as a poor relation .
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In the considered opinion of many experts this poor relation of the industry will probably take 80% of the market by volume.
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She moved in this atmosphere not quite as an equal, but not quite as a poor relation , either.
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I enquired about poor relations , in case anyone thought they had been done out of all this prosperity.
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Pauken, whose late-starting campaign caught people by surprise, has poor relations with Texas elected officials, particularly Gov.
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Build quality and sound are as good as I expected, so these guitars are definitely not poor relations .
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It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations .
showing
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By comparison with this vitality, Chichester made a comparatively poor showing .
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In my view, the above-quoted explanations for the poor showing , although valid, are too superficial.
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The poor showing of school work experience is striking.
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But the alternative - to have him believing her poor showing had been caused by drugs, was equally untenable.
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For what a poor showing they had made, the four of them, that afternoon!
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I'd make a very poor showing in a court.
soul
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Indeed it is a testimony to the value of computers that these poor souls still continue the struggle with the machine.
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There seemed to be a cop for every fan, and only one poor soul tried to make it happen for himself.
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Sure, he wouldn't be killed for anything he had on him, the poor soul .
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Voters, poor souls , are likely to be confused.
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King Robert himself hardly counted, poor soul .
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She's just like Sarah, in Liverpool, and that poor soul Betty.
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My sister, she was an invalid, died last week, poor soul .
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Melody is a poor soul and I feel very sorry for her.
state
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It also emphasises the need for continuing professional development of science teachers and the poor state of labs and equipment.
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Arkansas is a poor state , its deficiencies no measure of its virtue.
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The monument itself was in a poor state of repair and suffering the effects of age.
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Wiggins is the largest town in Stone County, and one of the poorest regions of the poorest state in the country.
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So I cast around for somewhere else and we found this, in a very poor state of repair.
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The report he submitted to his superiors accurately reflected the poor state of Volunteer morale and the need for immediate corrective action.
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The main half-timbered building now forms part of a farm, and is in a poor state of repair.
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In general, the mill is in a poor state of repair.
thing
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The poor things shrivel up in protest.
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Getting lost in the part, Miss Bubble in the Tubble set new standards of bimbo excellence, poor thing .
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He had had to go out on exercise one night, and was on duty another, poor thing .
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Interracial couples were under surveillance wherever the poor things raised their heads anywhere in the city.
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Even if they are fictional characters, it doesn't bode well for the poor things .
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Ah, she has been shot, poor thing .
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My pigeon can't fly, poor thing .
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The poor thing lives in Brooklyn.
woman
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The poor woman had given way to a black mood and been swamped by her ugly past, he explained.
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Convincing the powers-that-be to pay political heed to the needs of poor women and women of color was another.
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The poor woman had no choice but to return to her files.
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The poor woman had no faith in herself.
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She was only half alive, poor woman .
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But the harshest rhetoric and most sweeping policy changes have been reserved for the poor , particularly poor women .
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The poorer women especially had little choice but to follow their husbands and sweethearts into battle.
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The marketers' response to proletarianization also suggests that the political potential of poor women traders warrants greater attention.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bad/poor sport
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He told everyone Norm was a hothead, a poor sport , a disgrace as a Catholic, and a lousy catcher.
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It is not good for a player to be considered a poor sport .
a poor/rotten etc excuse for sth
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But Tories have continued to attack, saying the scheme is a poor excuse for real pedestrianisation.
give a good/poor account of yourself
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Cooper gave a good account of himself in the fight.
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Sussex's Wood gave a good account of herself and should have claimed the second set.
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Thirteen-year-old Patsy, who could always give a good account of herself, looked upset.
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Though it gave a good account of itself, Dave gently persuaded the fish close enough to be lifted aboard the boat.
good/bad/poor etc effort
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Batter Up Despite my best efforts , I could not stop eating the skinny fries that came with the combination.
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Dealing with these individual and family concerns will require the best efforts of mental health professionals.
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Football is a team game; offense and defense must work together to produce the best effort .
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However, objects decay despite our best efforts to conserve them.
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In spite of Holford-Walker's best efforts , the moran evaded his supervision.
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In spite of the rain's best efforts , I was pleased that I had been able to observe and film interesting mink behaviour.
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Or maybe they disapproved of or were indifferent to your best efforts .
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Peter Pike and Davern Lambert had good efforts before Musgrove completed his hat-trick with a good shot on the turn.
good/bad/poor etc seller
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Alcohol and western cigarettes are best sellers .
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Convinced it had a best seller on its hands, Random House came up with the unorthodox idea of relaunching the book.
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Drosnin is an investigative newspaper reporter who once wrote a best seller about Howard Hughes.
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His album Stars was last year's best seller and spawned a string of hit singles.
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It was the earliest best seller .
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Q.. What makes a book a best seller ?
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The man who made a best seller out of a defamatory rant now wants to make a best seller out of repentance.
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Voice over Mrs De Winter is already tipped as being one of the best sellers this year.
good/bad/poor etc speller
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Only good spellers can spell easily orally.
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They give the good speller a chance to use his skill, but may depress a poor speller.
good/poor/silly old etc sb
good/top/poor etc performer
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Almost all the poor performers were to be found in the economically-disadvantaged regions.
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Both Cisco and Stratacom are among the top performers on Wall Street.
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But these top performers are aware of the requirements for effective training as well as its limitations.
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Deals are also being offered to companies as alternative incentive perks to top performers .
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He chose an all-or-nothing strategy to put himself in the top performers in the Great Grain Challenge.
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It took me seven months to really understand that I have an individual who is a good performer .
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Strasser pointed to the construction, cable, chemical, tire and engineering industries as the likely best performers this year.
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The poorer performers tend to die; the better ones, to reproduce.
in good/bad/poor etc shape
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But if I was in better shape , I'd be sitting up there.
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He could still be in good shape .
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He said Texpool is in good shape now.
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If only he could tell them he was all right, in good shape , considering ....
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This saw the band in good shape , retaining their traditions of twisted passions and bleak emotional narratives.
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This year, however, Dole appears in good shape in both locations.
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Uptown was still in bad shape .
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We found he was in good shape , but had no food in his intestines.
in good/poor etc repair
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Almost 40% of unfit properties, and 35% of properties in poor repair , were occupied by people aged 60 and over.
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Drains: A properly constructed system, in good repair , does not normally require cleaning.
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It was the only door on Dreadnought which could be considered in good repair .
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Or Arthur McAlister; who had taken the responsibility of having their lawn mowed and keeping the house in good repair .
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Specific buildings, notably those on Castle Hill, including the cathedral and palaces, are restored and in good repair .
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The fences on either side of the track were in poor repair and in April 1965 children were seen on the line.
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The gallery is a very fine example and in good repair .
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The power station was in poor repair , and Smith set about installing new insulators and restoring good practice.
poor/lucky/handsome etc devil
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And the poor devil can't hide a thing from her.
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Eliot has it perhaps worse than I have - poor devil .
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He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections, and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that.
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He was a handsome devil , clever and presumably extremely well off.
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I know bow the poor devil feels.
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I was driving past and tried to stop this poor devil getting beaten up.
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This isn't a propitious start for him, poor devil .
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What on earth was eating the poor devil ?
put up a good/poor etc show
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He might have put up a good show the other day, but that was because he was frightened.
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She put up a better show in the 1980s.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Poor baby. Come here and let me give you a cuddle.
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a poor math student
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a poor neighborhood
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Attendance at the meeting was poor .
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Elaine comes from a poor family.
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Her chances of recovery are poor .
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Her mother grew up dirt poor among migrant workers in Alabama.
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His memory is poor , so you may need to repeat things.
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I hear poor old Steve broke his ankle.
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Most herbs grow fairly well in dry, poor soil.
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People who live in poor countries have a much lower life expectancy.
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She was born in a poor district of Chicago in 1925.
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Some Democrats believed they lost the election because many poor women didn't turn out to vote.
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The poor girl gets blamed for everything that goes wrong.
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The land around here is poor because of years of intensive farming.
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The Scotts are so poor they can barely afford milk and bread.
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The soil is very poor in minerals and needs some fertilizer.
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These cuts will hit the poorest members of society.
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They were so poor they couldn't afford to buy shoes for their children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For the long term, today's crisis is obviously a poor guide.
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I often think of poor Mrs Carrow now.
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In fact poor people have more at stake in preserving the resources they depend on.
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Should children attempt to read in poor light?
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The poor , sick, bereaved, came knocking at the door.
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These examinations are probably a poor instrument for measuring the quality of medical education because they concentrate on factual retention.
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We budgeted an improvement to 1991's poor results in anticipation of a recovery in the economy which never materialised.