I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be crammed/stuffed/packed etc full of sth
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Ted’s workshop was crammed full of old engines.
hot stuff
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The girls all think he’s hot stuff .
hot stuff (= very good )
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His new film is hot stuff .
know your job/subject/stuff (= be good at and know all you should about a job or subject )
never touch the stuff (= never drink alcohol )
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My grandfather was an alcoholic but I never touch the stuff .
sticky stuff
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There’s some sticky stuff in your hair.
stuff a chicken (= fill a chicken with a mixture of onion, lemon, herbs etc )
stuff and nonsense old-fashioned (= nonsense )
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When asked what he thought of astrology, he replied, 'Stuff and nonsense!'
stuff envelopes (= to put letters or documents into many envelopes, for example as part of a political compaign )
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We need volunteers to stuff envelopes and deliver leaflets.
stuffed animal
stuffed shirt
stuff/thrust sth in your pocket (= put it there quickly and carelessly )
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He took off his cap and stuffed it in his pocket.
the hard stuff (= strong alcohol )
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I never touch the hard stuff .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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August Jammed full of great stuff .
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Furthermore, there's no removable storage, so once the disk is full the older stuff has to go.
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They've got vaults full of the stuff .
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Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest, full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach.
good
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It's usually good rich stuff , ideal for the flower beds, so that's where it was dispatched.
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This is mostly mainstream, hit radio, but good stuff that still crosses over.
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All good sensational stuff , but the all-important question is, is it going to happen?
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She knows where the good stuff is.
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It would be my turn to get the good stuff .
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Now I get inta the good stuff .
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It was good boys' stuff - the hero always scoring the winning goal, hit or try.
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I suspect she is made of better stuff than that.
green
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It may be anything - roots, green stuff , old apples: it all depends.
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She must be getting the green stuff elsewhere.
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But out it came, the lunch, the champagne, the money, all the green and folding stuff .
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A roe deer came down into reeds opposite to munch at green stuff .
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Just get a rhythm going with the steel, and start feeding the green stuff under the blade.
hard
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I'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you.
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Harold thinks it would help him relax in the evening and not hit the hard stuff so hard.
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At farmhouse level, cider is hard stuff to control, in the barrel or in the head.
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They'd imagine me prostituting myself, or on the hard stuff .
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There were about a dozen writers in hospitality, most of them busy knocking back the hard stuff .
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The problem is that rock-climbers do all the hardest stuff in this game.
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That's what my father used to say whenever he took a glass of the hard stuff .
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I have come to believe that the soft occult more often than not leads to the hard stuff .
hot
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These are pretty hot stuff so it is £80 I am afraid.
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Flings like the recent Los Angeles Salsa Festival are proof that hoofers have the hot stuff .
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It's hot stuff you're dealing with.
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Yeahhrrr I say. Hot stuff , Sebastian.
old
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There's some nice old family stuff put away - crochet edges, embroidery, that kind of thing.
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I was told that in order to take up that old stuff , it and the plywood should be removed.
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And yet it turns out to be the same old stuff only worse, more, again, further.
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Only a touch of the old stuff .
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Furthermore, there's no removable storage, so once the disk is full the older stuff has to go.
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We discovered new ways of working together. Old stuff now, but nobody had done it that way before.
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This is all such old stuff .
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I love that old show-biz stuff .
real
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The real stuff would cost a mint.
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The real stuff is what keeps him here.
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We crawled through the bushes; real ambush stuff , straight down the road, into the van and drove very fast.
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But we always deal with the real stuff , the curriculum, kids' needs, and the rest.
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Check the coping. Real pool stuff .
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Antimatter, it turns out, is real , nonfiction stuff , but too rare to be used directly as rocket fuel.
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The real vintage stuff , like Travolta leather and vinyl jackets, can still be found in local second-hand stores for cheap.
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A sophisticated snowmaking system makes up for any lack of the real stuff .
right
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He had attitude, the right stuff , like a nineteenth-century beatnik.
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If in doubt see if it melts with heat, then you are sure you have the right stuff .
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This guy Powell has the right stuff .
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Now it's the turn of the attack to show it's made of the right stuff .
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Often the right stuff is buried under an avalanche of garbage.
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Switching on the overdrive channel, however, gave immediate access to the right stuff .
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Bob Dole, for instance, demonstrated he has the right stuff by conceding his loss with dignity and congratulating the president.
rough
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There's no rough stuff from the police - nothing you could file a complaint about - just an unexpected public display.
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I wait for the rough stuff .
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I nursed my damaged finger, and showed it to anyone who wanted me to join in the rough stuff .
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A great route, but strictly for lovers of full body contact and a bit of the rough stuff .
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A spot of rough stuff in the night; that's all they expected.
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But she might still be a hindrance when it came to the rough stuff .
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It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too, for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers.
small
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Of course, that is still small stuff compared with developments elsewhere.
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The small time stuff took the money from the council houses.
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So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall. Small stuff .
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Plenty of smaller stuff too, though.
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It was all just small stuff , tenders and shuttles.
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What income he has comes from heroin, extortion and other people's thieving. Small time stuff , with small people.
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Noreen's my girl, I've brought her small stuff .
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If this was the small stuff what was the big stuff like?
stern
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This time, however, the opposition was made of sterner stuff .
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But it seems to us that hypocrisy should be made of sterner stuff .
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Ann, made of sterner stuff than the rest of her tribe, leapt from the car, determined to fish.
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Miller seemed about to choke on his drink, but Floyd was made of sterner stuff .
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But Bastide was made of sterner stuff .
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She examined little boys as if they were made of much sterner stuff than mere flesh and bone.
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In the years separating the two Great Wars women were made of sterner stuff .
usual
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He asked Sarah for the photo and he was doing his usual stuff , you know, hand on heart.
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But really, now, the season is all about the usual stuff .
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I got the usual stuff people get; there were always insensitive professors and they comment.
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You know, the usual Fox stuff .
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We sat them down and gave them a drink and asked them the usual stuff .
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She's also got the usual Walt Disney stuff .
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The usual stuff - eat lightly before bed, nothing milky, exercise, cut out fats and keep the tubes clear.
very
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Controversy, intrigue, the literary spilling of blood is the very stuff of the Guitarist letters page.
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This is the very stuff of college life.
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Parades are the very stuff of Protestant politics.
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We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought, of which we have called it the very stuff and process.
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What are these other than the very stuff of economic development?
■ VERB
buy
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I never bought that stuff about her ever-expanding conscience and I certainly never bought any of her beauty products.
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They buy some of the stuff at the grocery.
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The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years.
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He must buy this stuff on Times Square.
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Its operating software costs almost nothing to market and sell; computer makers hammer on Microsoft's door to buy the stuff .
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If you can swing it, by all means buy them new stuff .
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People bought the stuff on trust.
do
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You should do more of this stuff .
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I could tell him that tonight, and we could do map stuff .
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If it was necessary, I could do hillbilly stuff .
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You want to do stuff to them, put parts of your body in parts of their bodies.
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I did some bad stuff to some people to prove myself, but I was racked with guilt.
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Now do stuff that will make us want to keep watching.
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Afterwards, I stood up to do my stuff .
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What teachers need to do is put the stuff of the curriculum in its proper perspective.
get
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Lately we get people round asking if we've got any of her stuff .
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I got a lot of stuff for free, a lot of people helped.
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It's got stuff in it, but I can't see what it is.
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We got our stuff together and got out to the car a little after ten.
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You steal my money you get from selling stuff I carried.
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It would be my turn to get the good stuff .
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A writer gets to make stuff up, while a journalist rewrites press releases.
hear
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So where can I hear this stuff ?
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And I could hear stuff going on in his stomach.
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She heard that stuff a lot.
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I love the patriotic feeling I get, hearing this stuff .
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The attraction here is the chance to hear the stuff live and to marvel at the harmonies and pristine sound.
play
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Amazing producer, composer and he can play great stuff .
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Fraser and I both studied classical music and revived it playing traditional stuff .
put
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Perhaps you'd put the stuff all ready in the treatment-room, Nurse Avery.
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They are put forward as the stuff of everyday life.
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You get yourself over there, we put the stuff in his car.
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I wanted to put all that two-faced stuff behind us and settle down with Mary-Claude to live a half-way normal life.
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What teachers need to do is put the stuff of the curriculum in its proper perspective.
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I put my stuff in a locker and Went out.
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It takes too much space and you tend to add different information to different copies and then forget where you put stuff .
read
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They read my stuff in the paper and they write me.
strut
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And, as it happens, I haven't come to watch you strut your stuff on this dubious little contract.
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I have done nothing to allow it to grow, change or strut its stuff .
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Enjoys windsurfing, working out at the gym and strutting his funky stuff on the dance floor.
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To celebrate, the ensemble will strut their stuff for hometown fans in Ticket to Amsterdam.
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Just the thing to stop you from dropping down dead after strutting your stuff to the latest chart topper!
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And by 1895, the city was ready to strut its stuff when it hosted the Cotton States International Exposition.
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The presenters strut their stuff behind a podium instead of on a runway.
touch
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My father would not touch the stuff , he said it might be poisonous.
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I hardly even touch the stuff .
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Not that Clarissa ever touched the stuff .
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Well-behaved high-caste Hindus do not touch the stuff , and the constitution enshrines prohibition as a public goal.
write
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And they write this stuff called love poetry.
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But my teacher writes the stuff on the blackboard so quickly and then erases it before I can copy it all.
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How could she have written such stuff ?
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I thought they would come to school and write nasty letters and stuff .
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He's determined to explore all the avenues open to him, including writing folky and pastoral stuff .
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You look at these old broadcasts and you see these literate, well-traveled, mostly men who wrote their own stuff .
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Did she want to write such weary stuff ?
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Somehow, we hoped, when the test finally came, she would be able to finesse the written stuff .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bit of stuff/fluff/skirt
be made of sterner stuff
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But Bastide was made of sterner stuff.
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But it seems to us that hypocrisy should be made of sterner stuff.
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In the years separating the two Great Wars women were made of sterner stuff.
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Miller seemed about to choke on his drink, but Floyd was made of sterner stuff.
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The female characters, too, are made of sterner stuff than the quick-witted schemers of Figaro.
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The visitors seem to be made of sterner stuff.
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This time, however, the opposition was made of sterner stuff.
don't sweat the small stuff
kid's stuff
knock the stuffing out of sb
strut your stuff
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He likes to strut his stuff on the stage in the annual Shakespeare production.
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Look at Dave strutting his stuff on the dance floor.
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We watched the sixteen year olds strutting their stuff on the dance floor.
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And by 1895, the city was ready to strut its stuff when it hosted the Cotton States International Exposition.
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And, as it happens, I haven't come to watch you strut your stuff on this dubious little contract.
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I have done nothing to allow it to grow, change or strut its stuff.
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Just the thing to stop you from dropping down dead after strutting your stuff to the latest chart topper!
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No, this guy's fault is he had one too many bourbons before getting up to strut his stuff on the dance-floor.
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The presenters strut their stuff behind a podium instead of on a runway.
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To celebrate, the ensemble will strut their stuff for hometown fans in Ticket to Amsterdam.
the green stuff
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Just get a rhythm going with the steel, and start feeding the green stuff under the blade.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you have any of that clear plastic stuff to cover food with?
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I've got some sort of sticky stuff on my shoe.
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I don't know how we're going to get all this stuff into the car.
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Our camping stuff alone took up most of the space in the back of the car.
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That stuff stinks.
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The builders have left all their stuff round the back of the house.
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They sent me a bunch of stuff about the university.
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What's that sticky stuff on the floor?
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What kind of stuff did they teach you there?
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You're not going to have a lot of time to pack up your stuff before you move.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But now she's all married and stuff .
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Gore needs to maintain an impression that all of this is everyday, normal stuff .
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So you only send non-confidential stuff that way.
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Ted had never talked like this, filler talk, stuff you say when you are getting used to having a visitor.
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There were 2 attacks early on, but it takes stronger stuff than this to beat Grimsby.
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We had some spare time, so we started messing around with samples and sequencers and stuff .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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I can see the black-backed notebooks, stuffed down between the sacks like something lost in a hayloft.
■ NOUN
box
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Stella and he had found them stuffed into old cigar boxes and plastic shopping bags scattered in different places around the house.
envelope
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She doesn't think that stuffing envelopes for the Democrats once every four years makes her an activist.
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A secretary worked at a desk piled with green stock certificates, stuffing them into manila envelopes .
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Finding volunteers to stuff envelopes for the local theater may be relatively easy.
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She also worked in abortion clinics stuffing envelopes or providing counseling over the phone.
face
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He's been stuffing his face ever since we left London.
hand
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He stuffed his hands in his trouser-pockets and regarded her with enigmatic eyes.
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The old man stuffed his hands in his back pockets.
mouth
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Leif, the beggar, was crouched in the inglenook, stuffing his mouth full of richly sauced venison.
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Omar sighed, his round smooth cheeks swelling with the meat, mashed potatoes, and peas-he had stuffed in his mouth .
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He sat by a table and stuffed chips into his mouth .
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She broke off a piece of baguette, spread it with butter and jam, stuffed it into her mouth .
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But her tongue feels as if it has been stuffed in her mouth like a rag to keep her quiet.
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But he marks his victims, apart from stuffing their mouths with hair.
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Even when a gag was stuffed into her mouth the sounds went on and on.
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Dougal stuffed them into his pocket .
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He took off his tie and stuffed it into his pocket .
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He tore it free, stuffed it in his pocket and returned the pad, slamming the drawer and locking it.
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And the more seats that are filled, the more cash promoter Bob Arum and the fighters can stuff into their pockets .
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Gathering up the debris, she stuffed it into her pocket to dispose of in the galley bin below.
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When no one was looking, I stepped outside and walked home, my hands stuffed into my pockets .
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Magee took one, glanced at it and stuffed it into his pocket .
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They were sleeping with their pants on, and with their passports, watches, and wallets stuffed in their front pockets .
turkey
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Cook separately, or use to stuff a turkey .
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If you stuffed the turkey , remove the stuffing and store separately.
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Most home cooks prefer to roast a stuffed whole wild turkey for the drama of the presentation.
■ VERB
try
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Now Tabitha sat on the bunk, trying to stuff everything back into the bag.
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The Husayns seemed to have got hold of a piece of pottery and were trying to stuff it under Khan's coat.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bit of stuff/fluff/skirt
be made of sterner stuff
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But Bastide was made of sterner stuff.
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But it seems to us that hypocrisy should be made of sterner stuff.
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In the years separating the two Great Wars women were made of sterner stuff.
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Miller seemed about to choke on his drink, but Floyd was made of sterner stuff.
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The female characters, too, are made of sterner stuff than the quick-witted schemers of Figaro.
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The visitors seem to be made of sterner stuff.
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This time, however, the opposition was made of sterner stuff.
full/packed/stuffed etc to the gills
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If Tapie was a fish he'd be stuffed to the gills this issue!
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It's a surprise then to find the Powerhaus pretty much packed to the gills .
kid's stuff
the green stuff
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Just get a rhythm going with the steel, and start feeding the green stuff under the blade.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Could you help me stuff these peppers?
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He had the fish stuffed to put on the wall in his office.
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She hurriedly stuffed some things into an overnight bag and left.
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We had to stuff envelopes with letters and information packs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, peacock feathers still shine brightly when their owner is dead and stuffed.
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I stuffed my shirt tail back into my trousers and tried to straighten my tie.
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Life, for me, is certainly not too short to stuff a mushroom.