adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a smile spreads across sb’s face (= they smile )
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A faint smile spread across her face.
around/across the world (= in many parts of the world )
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We have 950 customers around the world.
came across...well (= seemed to have good qualities )
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I don’t think I came across very well in the interview.
flee/escape across the border
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Over 100,000 civilians fled across the border.
grope your way along/across etc
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I was groping my way blindly through the trees.
light falls on/across etc sth
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The light fell on her book.
put/get your point across (= make people understand it )
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I think we got our point across.
walk across a field
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I walked across the field to the gate.
wing its/their way to/across etc sth
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planes winging their way to exotic destinations
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a shot across the bows/a warning shot (across the bows)
across the board
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Jobs will be lost across the board , in manufacturing, marketing, and administration.
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The changes will cause problems right across the board .
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They're cutting 10% of their staff across the board .
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They decided on a pay increase of 10% across the board .
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In the end, the only system that works well, across the board , is the one that involves perfect imitation.
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State education spending began to drop under the Dukakis administration in 1988, when huge budget deficits caused cutbacks across the board .
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Sunlight came into the room, slanting across the boards in languid diamonds.
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Tariffs will be lowered across the board , but some industries will be protected for another 15 years.
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The changes, if reported correctly, will cause problems right across the board .
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The cumulative results impressively followed suit, and that improvement could be found across the board .
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The departures screen Grand Central Station was no help, reading cancelled across the board because schedules were too tentative to post.
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The two main aims were achieved across the board .
across the pond
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Simply stretch the wire to and fro across the pond from picture hook to picture hook.
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Sling a piece of garden netting across the pond to keep out leaves which will sour the water.
across/over the way
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Burns will tell his board today that the Sports Council wants a non-voting member watching over the way the cash is spent.
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Carroll was puzzled over the way Protestants who had always feared priests could now demand his services.
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Just across the way is the wild-looking tip of Cumberland Island, a nature refuge where wild horses trample the sands.
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Lots of people from the neighborhood assemble in the street, across the way , to watch.
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Solicitors will have the same immunity as barristers from legal actions over the way they conduct cases in court.
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The Braves, meanwhile, sat across the way , with the air conditioning blowing in a manufactured winter.
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Then I remembered my quandary over the way one looked at X-rays.
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Those across the way claimed ringside seats on wooden chairs, each sitter shielded by a thick cotton-lace curtain.
be blazed across/all over sth
be blazoned across/on/over sth
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The manufacturer's name is blazoned across an event of worthwhile significance.
be strung (out) along/across etc sth
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Lights were strung across the promenade; around the Casino.
come across sb/sth
pick your way through/across/among etc sth
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Hardly glancing at Berowne's body Dalgliesh picked his way across the carpet to Harry Mack and squatted beside him.
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I picked my way through the noisy tables and went into the Gents.
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Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change.
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So four of us took our stirrup pumps and torches and picked our way through what was a minefield.
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The Arvins came picking their way through rubble, nervous as rats, poking people aside with the barrels of their M-16s.
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There was just one lock, and I picked my way through it with ease.
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They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.
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We pick our way across the cement floor and into the battered portacabin.
put yourself across
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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This street's too busy to walk across .