noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
magic wand
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I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.
wave a magic wand
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I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
magic
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And we accept that there is no magic wand which can be waved to provide a million jobs overnight.
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But in real life, there is no magic wand which turns us into the parents we long to become.
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Equally, nobody to whom I have spoken thinks that decommissioning is a magic wand .
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The magic wand of his personality became the national ramrod.
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Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.
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There are no magic wands or instant solutions.
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If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
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And now the magic wand of scent had lightly touched, and passed.
■ VERB
wave
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Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.
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I ask, if you could wave a magic wand , what would your life look like?
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If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
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In time, one hopes and trusts that Gilmore will wave his magic wand and refurbish the theater to its former glory.
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We wave our own magic wands .
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The government has waved the magic wand of legislation over longstanding curriculum problems: overload, differentiation, progression, examination domination.
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But London's pattern of hospitals is such a historical muddle that no one can wave a wand and transform everything overnight.
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Anyway, I imagined him waving a wand , and the world came into existence.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
wave a magic wand
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I ask, if you could wave a magic wand, what would your life look like?
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If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And the long, jewelled box containing the rod, without roses or leaves, that was the wand of his kingship.
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And we accept that there is no magic wand which can be waved to provide a million jobs overnight.
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Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.
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Each card or wand contains an identification number that is read by an electronic sensor, which charges credit-card accounts.
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Elmer squirts Magic all over with a hose and scrapes the water off with a curved wand .
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Equally, nobody to whom I have spoken thinks that decommissioning is a magic wand .
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She looks up from her work, needle half filled in front of her face like a little wand .
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The magic wand of his personality became the national ramrod.