noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
complete stranger
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a complete stranger
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
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Would you leave him/her with a complete stranger ?
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They argue with complete strangers a lot.
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She was worse than Doreen, telling complete strangers the entire family history.
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A nail-biting finish, but finally won by Moira Creek at her first attempt and a complete stranger to Pooh culture.
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She'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger .
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He was a complete stranger , of no importance to her whatever.
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Four Buddhist priests prayed for the royal couple during their visit but they left still looking like complete strangers .
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Surely Edward can't have told complete strangers we're on our honeymoon?
perfect
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Again he was a person, no longer a perfect stranger .
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Some oranges in a commune, like perfect strangers , dwell upon their own navels, untransformed.
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A year before he had, but that year had changed him, eliminated the sentiment and made him a perfect stranger .
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Asked to stand guard over good or treasure, they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger .
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They put money on the table, too, perfect strangers expressing unmistakable monetary interest in the Tonelli Nation.
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I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger .
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She turned into an expert at coaxing food and lodging invitations out of perfect strangers .
total
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Have you gone mad, talking of marrying a total stranger - and a foreigner - after five minutes?
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When they were admitted, they not only received medical attention, but also love, from total strangers .
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Ten days in an alien village with a total stranger and her totally strange family.
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The approach was to build one committed team from a group of total strangers .
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Honest, to a total stranger he said all that!
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To get off a train with a total stranger ... I really can not ... well, words fail me.
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He was like a total stranger .
virtual
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She'd never been away from home before and her new husband and in-laws were virtual strangers .
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He was a virtual stranger to others living in Evesham Court and police still haven't confirmed his identity.
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How dared this man, a virtual stranger , stir up these doubts in so private an area of her life?
■ VERB
feel
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Farm workers are apt to complain that they now feel like strangers in their own village.
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At times, I begin to feel like a stranger in my own country.
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Jack felt like a stranger in his own home.
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I have told him many stories, but during the day I often feel we are strangers .
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After only a couple of days, comprising mainly insults and bickering, she hadn't felt as if they were strangers .
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But love was what he felt for the stranger who'd thrust herself upon him.
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He made her feel excluded, a stranger , an intruder into his private world.
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One never feels like a stranger or some visiting curiosity.
let
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She would not let this stranger get near her.
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Voice over Once again pensioners are advised not to keep large sums of money at home and not to let in strangers .
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She had stubbornly defied both her solicitor and Glyn and here she was letting a complete stranger dictate terms to her.
meet
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The first meeting between these strangers could easily produce a shock that reverberated throughout the marriage.
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Mama never met a stranger in her life, although most people thought she was dignified.
talk
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S Teach them the dangers of talking to strangers and not to accept sweets or gifts.
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Red learned never to stray from the path or talk to strangers again.
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Hatred for the girl who had dared to talk to strangers , who had ruined his plan to get rid of Sikes.
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She had trained them to hold hands, walk straight to school and not to talk to strangers .
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When I was little, my mom told me not to talk to strangers .
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Female speaker Don't talk to strangers .
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I was talking to a stranger .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
perfect stranger/fool/angel etc
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A year before he had, but that year had changed him, eliminated the sentiment and made him a perfect stranger.
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Again he was a person, no longer a perfect stranger.
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Asked to stand guard over good or treasure, they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger.
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I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger.
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She turned into an expert at coaxing food and lodging invitations out of perfect strangers.
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Some oranges in a commune, like perfect strangers, dwell upon their own navels, untransformed.
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They put money on the table, too, perfect strangers expressing unmistakable monetary interest in the Tonelli Nation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After assuming office, he was reluctant to use the existing speech writers because they were strangers to him.
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Carly, don't ever take candy from strangers.
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Many of the farming families have lived here for hundreds of years, and tend to treat everyone else as strangers.
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The boy was a complete stranger to me.
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The people I stayed with were very kind, so I didn't feel like a stranger for long.
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The room was full of strangers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger .
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Instead we might have been strangers.
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People nudged one another and nodded at this tall stranger , conspicuous in his limp white suit and dark shirt.
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Student volunteers are relying on home hospitality from strangers, supporters who are supplying free rooms for the summer.
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The stranger began a series of intonations, breathing noisily.
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Violence in the home is as much a crime as violence from a stranger , so do not put up with it.
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With no knowledge of the language or people, he is truly a stranger in a strange land.