I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have a memory like a sieve (= forget things very easily )
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I'm sorry, I have a memory like a sieve. I forgot you were coming today!
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fine
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Put the soup in a food processor or blender, or push through a fine sieve , and return to the pan.
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Strain cooking liquid through a fine sieve into a pot.
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Cook a few tart apples along with a sprig or two of mint and strain through a fine sieve .
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Strain the stock through a fine strainer or sieve .
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Strain marinade through a fine sieve , reserving onions and marinating juices separately.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Force chilies through a food mill or sieve , straining out seeds and skins.
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Now place a sieve over a big bowl.
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Or put some ice cubes in the sieve before straining the soup, Roraback suggests.
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Pleased with the way dust has settled on the sieves.
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Press a sieve gently over the surface to create a textured effect.
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Strain cooking liquid through a fine sieve into a pot.
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Strain the sauce through a fine-mesh sieve and pour into a sauce boat.
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The fines continue to be washed through the sieve until the water runs clear.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Josh shuffled off down the lip of the basin still sieving the water.
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Liquidise or sieve half the soup and return it to the pot with the remainder.
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Liquidise the soup and then sieve it.
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Purée and sieve remaining fruit, and pour over turned-out pudding before serving.
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Stone the prunes, sieve them, with any remaining juice.
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Then they are stoneground or mechanically milled and sieved.
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They sieved the tides of fate.