noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cup and saucer
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Do you prefer a mug or a cup and saucer?
flying saucer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
flying
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On this particular occasion however, it is a nifty little flying saucer .
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If we can not accept flying saucers , we must at least accept floating plates.
■ VERB
fly
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His flying saucer , however, is made of glass fibre and runs on compressed air.
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He would not raise his eyes to the sky, though he knew there was a flying saucer from Tralfamadore up there.
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If you stare at the flying saucer long enough it begins to vibrate.
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He said, too, that he had been kidnapped by a flying saucer in 1967.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But as she washed her breakfast cup and saucer and rinsed them meticulously under the cold tap, she was anxious.
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Cigarette ashes crusted with coffee in saucers or spilled over the sides of motel ashtrays.
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Coffee cup in hand, slopping the liquid in its saucer , I went out on to the terrace.
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Cups, saucers, teapot, milk jug with its little muslin cloth, plates and splattered jam.
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He placed his cup and its flooded saucer separately on the coffee table and sat back in his chair.
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Shamrock cup and saucer by Beleek Bestlite 31170 solid brass lamp base with dark green enamelled shade.
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The old man opened his eyes, saucers of terror.
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The table was set with matching cups and saucers, bright silverware, old plates and a small pitcher of milk.