adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bug is going around (= a lot of people have it )
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A lot of staff are off because there’s a bug going round.
a rumour goes around ( also a rumour circulates formal ) (= a rumour is passed among people )
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There are a lot of rumors going around that they’re going to sell the company.
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Not long afterwards, ugly rumours began to circulate.
a snake coils itself around sth
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The snake coiled itself around the branch.
a story goes around (= people tell it to each other )
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A story went around that she had been having an affair.
a wheel turns/goes around
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The wheels went slowly around.
around/across the world (= in many parts of the world )
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We have 950 customers around the world.
By the time...rolled around
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By the time Wednesday rolled around , I still hadn’t finished.
clasp your hands/arms around/behind sth
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Fenella leaned forward, clasping her hands around her knees.
come around/round the bend
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Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.
come/go around a corner
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At that moment, a police car came around the corner.
disappear around a corner
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We watched the two boys disappear around the corner.
go round/around
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Why does the Earth goes around the Sun?
gossip goes around (= it is told by one person to another )
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It was a small village, and any gossip went around very quickly.
have a hunt around for sth British English informal (= look for something )
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I’ll have a hunt around for it in my desk.
have/take a look around ( also have/take a look round British English ) (= look at all the things in a particular place )
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I have a special interest in old houses. Do you mind if I take a look around?
leave...lying around
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If you leave your shoes lying around like that, you’ll trip over them.
look green about/around the gills (= look pale and ill )
lug sth around
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It’s a huge book, not something you’d like to lug around.
/lug sth up/into/onto etc sth
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She began to lug her suitcase up the stairs.
put/wrap your arms around sb
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I put my arms around Bobby and gave him a hug.
rumours fly around (= are talked about by a lot of people )
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There were wild rumours flying around the office on Wednesday.
running around like headless chickens (= trying to do a lot of things, in an anxious or disorganized way )
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We were all running around like headless chickens .
sail around the world
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She always wanted to sail around the world .
sit around a table
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We sat around the table and talked.
skirted around...issues
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a disappointing speech that skirted around all the main issues
the pivot on/around which sth turns/revolves
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Iago’s lie is the pivot on which the play turns.
the world revolves around (= that she is the only important person )
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She seems to think that the world revolves around her .
Turning the car around
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Turning the car around , we headed home.
wander/browse around the shops
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I spent a happy afternoon wandering around the shops.
zoom off/around/down etc
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Brenda jumped in the car and zoomed off.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
build
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Christmas dinner is built around horsd'oeuvres, various kinds of pasta, capon and turkey.
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They are built around speed, not size, at a time when mastodons rule the earth.
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Voice over Border Oak builds around 30 timber framed homes a year from manor houses to small cottages.
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He own every other building around here.
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Another is built around what one can learn through the science of archaeology.
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Dinner parties were built around the episodes.
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It is not a system built around overpowering anyone.
centre
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The main dissension in these books centres around two main questions.
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Testing of knowledge gained can be centred around the ward learning objectives.
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A tandem relationship ... A great deal of discussion has centred around the meaning of this word Paraclete.
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There was a long-standing tradition of professionalism, which centred around jockeys and pugilists for the most part.
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Police activity centred around the offence and the apprehension of a perpetrator.
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The discussion centred around the flexibility clause which is unlikely to be removed.
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Most of the Group's production was centred around the Etruria Works and in Hanley.
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The idea centres around using wasteland and parks as communal gardens.
cluster
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They clustered around his ankles, hiding his plimsolls entirely from view.
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They clustered around and demanded to know who each one was.
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The excavation of a village may reveal a number of small buildings clustered around one much larger building.
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It is quite something to discover giant tubeworms clustered around warm water flowing from the seafloor.
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This research explores the discourses of class in terms of the meanings clustering around the ideas of work and of community.
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Several estimates of the extra wage to compensate for risk cluster around $ 200, 000 per death in 1967 dollars.
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The nomes were clustered around a white heap on the floor.
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On this basis, the hypothesis would be that religious beliefs tend to cluster around particular compounds of limitation.
come
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Roy Barker is coming around with 3-1 / 4 sacks and Chris Doleman is still a force at 36.
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A mystery man usually comes around to drop off a complimentary rose at extraordinary houses.
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Scamp came around and stood in my line of vision.
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If Yarborough were to come around today asking for your vote, you might find his style somewhat corny.
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Things are not all bad and what goes around has come around and bowled me right over.
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But, as the saying goes, what goes around comes around.
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The coppers used to come around at first every time somebody stole a dame's purse but finally they gave it up.
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Denver had come around , so to speak.
drive
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After driving around for some time with no success I decided that I must get on my way.
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A Chambers colleague remarked on seeing it that it must be like driving around in a Smartie.
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Often, as I drove around , I felt as if I were in an enormous time park.
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Karen reported the theft the police and the ranger, and spent hours driving around the roads looking for Tang.
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She got back in the car and drove around to the back where the room was assigned.
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The man then left the motorway and headed for Chester, driving around roads in the Mollington area.
float
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I shouldn't like to think many of them were floating around .
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The president now floats around in the mid-60 percents.
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Drugs were floating around this case.
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There are plenty of jokes floating around the Internet these days.
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She was wearing something pink and delicate that floated around her body when she moved.
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What I remember is a picture floating around out there outside my head.
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Carrie doesn't seem to feel the cold herself and floats around in her filmy smocks without a shiver.
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At the float tube pool, you can actually put on waders, float around and see what tubing is like.
fool
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Dominic was just fooling around - flirting.
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This seems like a guy I can fool around with.
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They stood up, laughed and fooled around .
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You should have come to Ward or me the minute you suspected it, instead of fooling around guessing.
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At first she thought he was just fooling around , but he quickly turned vicious.
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After two minutes she starts fooling around .
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The Montrose girls were too old to be fooling around like that, anyway.
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Augie and I are fooling around with them.
gather
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The water-power age produced hamlets, at the most small villages, gathered around a new mill.
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Later, while dancing, Johnson slipped and fell to the floor, and the curious gathered around .
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People gathered around him like a Pied Piper.
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A thousand people, mostly men, gathered around the grate one day last spring to witness a double execution.
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Adults gathered around to watch, some to rinse themselves off.
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At the back of the beach, where sand mingled with scrub, some fifty people were gathered around cars and trailers.
get
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Finally, it also is tangible satisfaction when I get around to using it because I remember the work put into it.
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Growers can get around the ban by planting vines for quality wines rather than table wines.
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I do not know any way to get around this.
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If the searches uncover similar ideas you may need to modify your invention to get around areas others bagged first.
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Clark said that he knew I had been in Jeffries' class; these things got around .
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I get around , as you know.
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They found children forced to stay at home because they had no way to get around .
go
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He has confided that he once told Claudia that in real life people do not go around analysing everyday rituals.
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The Ferris wheel is cool too because a person sits in one of the seats while it goes around .
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It's the only way they can go around harassing and criminalizing black kids and think they're doing a good job.
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They go around wearing their pensions like hair shirts.
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At bridge 14 you can join the Bierton Circular Walk which goes around the village of Bierton.
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The master at that time was always going around pinching him too.
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I went around the place and the units to find out where everything was.
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I went around for a time speaking with Mrs Roosevelt at one honorable drive after another, and she liked me.
hang
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Please don't hang around , Fiona.
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Imagine all the trouble hordes of tots and teenagers can get into with nothing to do all day but hang around .
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I didn't hang around with her much anyway.
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Belinda shifted her sandalled feet nervously, wondering suddenly if Deana had decided to hang around until the mythical sailor showed up.
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Harrison didn't exactly avoid us, but he made it clear that we were not to hang around his neck.
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Wants to be liked and likes to hang around and curry favour with teacher.
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I hang around the pavement by the shop for a bit, fiddling with the ball of string in my pocket.
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All of us would hang around together.
lie
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I found myself revising with the small colloquia that lay around the grassy precincts of the university.
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Gone were the days when she could lie around with him for hours at a time looking at bugs in the grass.
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The property room looked like a theatrical battlefield with masks and armour lying around in different stages of completion.
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Perhaps there was a bit of bread lying around somewhere.
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Boulders lay around the waterside, ash trees spreading finger-like leaves overhead.
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Fossil bones were just lying around in the open.
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Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children. 3.
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Thou shalt not leave illegal things lying around in plain sight.
look
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There is nothing wrong in seeking an invitation to go and look around a neighbouring school to explore possibilities of working together.
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You look around and there's two people in the clubhouse.
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Edouard stood looking around him, his mouth set, his hands clenched.
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As long as the tape ran I looked around for more work.
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I had now gained sufficient confidence to look around .
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She waved at us but also looked around the room, I assumed to see who else was there.
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So we must look around for phenomena that occur every 150 million years or so.
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He rushed ahead and looked around in bewilderment.
mess
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We were like each other; she knew what she wanted and she didn't mess around .
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Bubsie: Oh, just mess around .
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Now he is messing around with education, and look at the mess that that will be in.
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Was it a good idea to launch our kids' lives as scientists simply by letting them mess around ?
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So you're not messing around and wasting everybody's time.
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Years ago Pauline blew off his fingers messing around with homemade rockets.
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A monster like that is nothing to mess around with.
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We knew they had to go so we messed around with it.
move
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She wakes up as I start moving around and peers at the screen.
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Interior screens can range from fabric-covered triptych folding ones you can move around to sliding doors to a climbing house plant.
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She could hear them yawning and coughing as they moved around .
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He stayed out late, but in the morning I heard him move around .
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Each centre will be designed to help even the most physically disabled or confused people move around and orient themselves easily.
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Troopers moved around in small groups, looking for their assigned ships.
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In the flickering light he appears like a cat moving around cautiously.
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The other people living around the courtyard seem to be quite used to them and continue to move around their business undisturbed.
pass
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The word injudicious was passed around .
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The attorneys approached the bench, assorted papers were passed around , and the prospective members of the jury were led in.
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But the multiple currents passing around and between the islands were treacherous.
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At about this time I read the first article about us in a worn copy of a news magazine being passed around .
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Hours later she was being passed around the arms of her delighted mother and relatives.
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One of my uncles used to suggest that it be fried and passed around to the guests.
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There was only one copy and this was passed around the village for a farthing a read.
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Enthroned, he would pass around cigarettes.
play
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The best way to enjoy IE4 is to spend some time on line, play around , and explore its capabilities.
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He played around with both boys and girls and he was capable of uncontrolled violence.
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But it wasn't really such a leap from paintings of riders to pictures of top-hatted toffs playing around with tousled tarts.
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Reading this book, I am struck by how much intellectual work can revolve around playing with blocks.
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Yeah, it was fun, we played around .
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Why were men able to play around with any sort of drab?
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She encourages customers to play around with samples so they feel they are helping to design their own rooms.
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Because of the way my grandfather lived, getting drunk and playing around , his son suffered.
revolve
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She says her life revolved around the ice rink - she had to fit her personal life in around her skating.
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Thus, the whole question of the attainment of metanoia revolves around receiving and registering impressions in a new way.
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In my opinion, the books revolve around this central feeling of loss.
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The entire celestial model revolves around the motionless earth once every twenty-four hours.
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Half the plot of this book appears to revolve around people holding guns on other people.
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Her life revolves around her children, she said.
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The food will revolve around veal stew at about £6.
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The exploration will revolve around the systematic development in youngsters of the desired, and contrasting, characteristics the two valuations entail.
roll
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Then people rolling around all over the place.
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Last season they were 3-10 by the time Thanksgiving rolled around , and they never recovered.
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The word kept rolling around in his mind like a marble.
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But when the election rolled around last Tuesday, gays and lesbians in large numbers stood by Clinton.
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Only this time, it was found rolling around in a dustbin.
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What am I doing out there rolling around and being thrown around and groping myself?
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We disappear into the darkness, where nobody can see that we're not rolling around the floor in paroxysms of ecstasy.
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By the time Wednesday rolled around , Curtis had apparently forgotten his offer.
run
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I can run around a pitch 25 times, no problem.
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The goats just ran around and nibbled on the turnips.
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There were several families under the trees now, with little children running around and babies crawling about in the grass.
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The skinny: Deion Sanders running around with a bucket of ice water is such a passe locker-room prank these days.
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He was not running around and kicking everybody.
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More animals are out and about, running around .
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Once successful, he will run around and not allow you to get hold of his prize.
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They vary in size from 4 to 8 ounces, with most running around 5 ounces.
scatter
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There was blood all over the floor and rings scattered around .
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Strange-colored tailings ponds and old, rusted equipment are scattered around .
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Vern made for a bench in a concrete space with trees and shrubs scattered around in pots, and sat down.
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The worn, faded furniture, the dingy wallpaper, the papers scattered around , the smell of alcohol.
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Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily.
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But each one had actually hit one of the few rocks scattered around .
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There were plenty of books and magazines scattered around , but none seemed to relate to any academic studies she could identify.
shop
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The biggest variable you will find if you are shopping around is price.
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Finally, steering organizations that shop around can provide more comprehensive solutions, attacking the roots of the problem.
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It is well worthwhile getting plenty of advice and shopping around .
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Chances are, you can match any Houston rate if you take the time and effort to shop around your own city.
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So my message is to shop around and not to be downhearted.
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The thinking seems to be that many savers are too ignorant or lazy to shop around .
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There are many choices of decking systems available, to suit all pockets, so shop around .
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Steering organizations that shop around can even promote experimentation and learn from success.
sit
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All participants sit around a large table.
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But in the land of my forebears, women sit around and wait for their men.
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Cameron, needing nothing, sat around the house, surrounded by other peoples' books and music and art.
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Two other students, Linda Wolf and Christine Ashcraft, sat around with me afterward talking about it.
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About thirty airmen sat around wearing a variety of expressions from sickly smiles to tough bravado.
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When she broke off the smoke, the Pilgrims had no fire, they sat around eating sandwiches and devilled eggs.
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At a place called Morro Chico there was a tiny inn where we sat around the stove ourselves.
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Statues by the hundred sat around and above him, tier upon curving tier.
sitting
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Sunday roasts are her speciality, with the whole family sitting around an old pine table.
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The recycled coolant comes from large industrial chillers or from people who had stockpiles of used Freon sitting around .
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But a man could go nuts sitting around wondering about what might happen.
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There was nobody telling us what to do; nobody sitting around drinking palm wine and demanding dinner.
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Here they were, the wise ones, sitting around the table contemplating their divine duty.
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He sitting around waiting for his lawyer to call him.
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But to tell the truth, the album makes a pretty good accompaniment for just sitting around and eating junk food.
spin
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She spun around to watch the coin splash, but it was too late.
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She spun around on the porch and glared back at the open window.
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With a snarl, Fox spun around and slapped him, harder than necessary.
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This nasty creature never talks and is always spinning around .
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He puts it on his head and spins around in one motion.
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He stumbled, but before he could fall, he was spun around and Buck Leeper grabbed him by his lapel.
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Corbett knew he had to leave but the room was spinning around him and he fell gratefully into the gathering blackness.
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The stammering policeman spun around , tripped on the rusty pot, and all but crashed to the ground.
stand
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In one corner is a bath and about three nurses are standing around with masks on.
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I went outside and stood around with the men in the road.
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They stood around her in the stuffy room, aghast.
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People are standing around , they joke, they laugh.
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On the concourse people stood around gazing up at the departure and arrival boards, checking times of trains.
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My clients, in three-piece pin-striped suits, stood around , statesmanlike, and some had big, happy grins.
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The cars stopped and everyone got out, standing around in little groups, talking in hushed voices.
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It was an ornate old lobby with great marble supporting columns and big pots of palms standing around .
stay
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Thornton accepted, agreeing to stay around and possibly play a larger role again if things looked up.
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Thomson stayed around for the festivities, as did assorted other friends.
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The armed robber, needless to say, did not stay around to be sued.
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The amino acids from any one meal stay around for about 24 hours.
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Lisa was always his favourite and he seemed favourably impressed that Tony had stayed around .
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Sometimes he stays around , but it's only a matter of convenience when we're working.
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He felt he needed me to stay around .
stick
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Just stick around here until we can think of something.
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It all goes merrily or unhappily along whether you stick around to watch or not.
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They should bloody well have stuck around till we turned up.
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He also has a lucrative five-year contract at Hilton that makes it worth his while to stick around .
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But once they're there, once you've given them headroom, they seem pretty determined to stick around .
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They announced that they wanted to talk to everyone, and they asked everyone to stick around for a while.
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Your fellow-passengers, severely shaken, Will almost all be loath to stick around .
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Jane stuck around waiting for her, and Zack had promised to take them both home, so he was there too.
travel
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It was while travelling around the world that the seeds of her future calling were first sown.
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It travels around its star every 14. 76 days.
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Merchants would travel around on a regular basis giving out raw materials and collecting the spun, or woven, product.
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I want to travel around and talk to people about what is happening on the ground.
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During a typical summer's day, a mountain goat may travel around a kilometre in search of food.
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The idea was to travel around , there would be some going to towns and waiting for things to happen.
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They used to travel around a lot, handing out leaflets and things.
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Oh, not in the top flight, but he travels around the world - anywhere golf is played.
turn
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Where the road levels out she turns around , walking forward until it rises again.
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I turn around to ask her if she knows how I can get home.
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There was no way to maneuver, even to turn around and get out if we had to.
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They saw the mother drop her parcels and turn around to step back and try to reach her boy.
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I want you to go over to that empty space and turn around in it a few times.
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But turning around such a tarnished image will not be easy.
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When he turned around , she was gone.
wait
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Do they wait around , to be absorbed into any passer-by?
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After waiting around for ten days he was instructed to proceed to Bombay.
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Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday, which would have meant waiting around for five days.
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At about 4: 00 p. m. about 600 people were waiting around for their trains.
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But as to advice - well, don't just sit around waiting for the telephone to ring.
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He sitting around waiting for his lawyer to call him.
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Do you wait around with a gun in your hand to shoot me down when I finally stagger out?
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Jane stuck around waiting for her, and Zack had promised to take them both home, so he was there too.
walk
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These allow headphone listening while walking around the room.
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As the students are drawing, walk around to be sure that they are drawing an exact picture of the hanging hammer.
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Afterwards we got up and walked around , going over to inspect the meadow's edge.
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Why was this guy walking around free?
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Some homes do not have a table; food may be provided while the child is playing or walking around .
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I do not care much now about the way the women gape at me when I walk around in the village center.
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Even though I only have to walk around the dancers, he's taking no chances.
wander
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At that stage I thought engineers all wandered around in overalls with spanners.
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A rough shepherd wakes her and points out the road, saying she ought not to wander around like a wild woman.
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The shops had shut and people were wandering around arm in arm and going into pubs and restaurants.
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At home, she wanders around , perpetually touching and picking up things.
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Out in the street afterwards they wandered around the corner into Leicester Square to see the Christmas lights.
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Hundreds of observers, including a team led by former President Jimmy Carter, will wander around on voting day.
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It was definitely not a night to let a friend wander around in a drunken stupor searching for his car.
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Finally, on a pretext of doing a little musicological research, he went down and wandered around .
wrap
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Along the way we noticed young pine trees with cloth wrapped around the top shoots to stop deer eating them.
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I realize that it is my mother wrapped around my legs, holding on to me as though I can save her.
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It will wrap around this needle on the return journey.
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Hank says our steps are wrapped around a phone pole two blocks down the beach.
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Cover the sausage completely, then wrap around with a bacon rasher.
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The paper was found, wrapped around some cigars, on an abandoned Confederate campground.
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It was wrapped around the body and over the left shoulder where it was draped in folds which nearly reached the floor.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(hang) around your neck
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He was a skinhead, and had a line of swastikas tattooed around his neck .
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She attached a cord and started wearing them around her neck .
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The Doctor hooked the handle of his umbrella over his top pocket and pulled his paisley scarf from around his neck .
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The king wore it on a ribbon around his neck on ceremonial occasions.
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The lead Hunter appeared to have a mane around its neck .
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Until my first New York winter rain, when the fake fur matted around my neck , wrists and knees.
(just) around/round the corner
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Around the corner , their classmates practiced pulling small-fry violin bows across squeaky strings.
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I rounded the corner , then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
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Rats gnawed on black infants' feet, while money was used to build new police stations around the corner .
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She might think we're just around the corner and that we're not coming to see her.
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She peered round the corner of the house.
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She was around the corner , talking to Hoffmann.
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The Derby Tonelli grocery store of my mind could have stood around the corner from my house.
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There was always something around the corner if you didn't lose your head.
a millstone round/around sb's neck
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This particular heritage may be a millstone around the neck of scientific natural history.
an albatross (around your neck)
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The project became a financial albatross for the city.
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But what began as an enlightened innovation has become an albatross around the neck of the free enterprise system.
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Their wingspan exceeds that of an albatross .
around the clock
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Rescuers are working round the clock to find survivors of the blast.
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Since the outbreak of war, journalists have been working round the clock .
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The emergency telephone lines operate around the clock .
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A houseful of people watched me around the clock , which only made me more determined.
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Between them they provide a mix of outreach and on-site services around the clock .
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For the past 4 days, they've been working around the clock and through the night.
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I was on planes or e-mail around the clock , seven days a week.
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Men from the Royal Engineers and local contractors have been working around the clock to make the barracks habitable.
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That many trips around the clock means each minute hand has traveled the equivalent of 10, 677 miles.
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The company worked around the clock to repair the problem.
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The modification work continues around the clock .
be noised abroad/about/around
be oriented to/towards/around sth/sb
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All the computers we consider are general-purpose, at least in theory, although they may be oriented towards particular application areas.
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Attention will be oriented to the imagery and assumptions about reproductive physiology on which methods of contraception and their evaluation are based.
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First we were oriented towards the orientation building.
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In contrast, pragmatic parties hold more flexible goals and are oriented to moderate or incremental policy change.
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Management involvement in internal operations and problems must be oriented to the environment, its opportunities and demands.
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On the one hand, the questions are oriented towards exposing the discipline, bringing into the open its hidden character.
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The former are oriented to specialized resources while the latter focus on outputs.
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This project is oriented towards education.
be the wrong way round/around
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Church twisted his head sideways as if the writing were the wrong way round.
beat about/around the bush
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Don't beat about the bush.
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Eliot did not beat about the bush.
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I am not a person to beat about the bush.
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I meant to be open with him but when it came to it I beat about the bush.
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Let us stop beating about the bush.
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No need to beat about the bush sweetie.
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She winced at their infelicities, at the clumsy way they beat about the bush.
bring the conversation around/round to sth
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With the rector, however, Arthur still can not bring the conversation around to the confession he once planned to make.
bum around sth
enough/plenty to go around
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Plenty enough to go around for any city.
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There are community therapists, but not enough to go around.
every time sb turns around
feel around/on/in etc sth (for sth)
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After she had put the phone down, she felt in a daze.
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I returned to my book, the hot feeling in my face returned to its rightful place.
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One of my reasons for becoming involved in Westland was that I felt in some respects that I owed them something.
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She was not feeling in the least cheerful however when the taxi dropped her off at Ven's home.
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She would understand; that was how he felt in the stores.
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This feeling in turn hardens into lack of interest in work.
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Whether you feel in any way responsible depends on your viewpoint.
fuck sb around/about
get around (sth)
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And they also get around New York.
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Either that or there was some way to get around the lock.
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Fedotenko got around Matthieu Descoteaux and centered to White.
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He could then expect to get around four pounds ten shillings.
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Individuals and businesses are obliged to pay $ 49, but many never get around to sending in the check.
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It would take some time for the news to get around.
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Julian had never got around to asking, but now he knew that it had been Guy Hanthorpe.
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So there was no getting around it: the car was dead.
get around sth
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How do we get around the new tax laws?
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If we can get round these difficulties, we'll be able to discuss the really important points.
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There's no way of getting around it - you're going to have to tell her the truth.
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And they also get around New York.
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Either that or there was some way to get around the lock.
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Fedotenko got around Matthieu Descoteaux and centered to White.
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He could then expect to get around four pounds ten shillings.
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Individuals and businesses are obliged to pay $ 49, but many never get around to sending in the check.
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It would take some time for the news to get around.
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Julian had never got around to asking, but now he knew that it had been Guy Hanthorpe.
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So there was no getting around it: the car was dead.
get your tongue around sth
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I couldn't get my tongue around the consonants.
go around (sth)
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I can't go around my friends begging for a home, can l?
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In pursuit of material he went around the world six times and gave over 8,000 illustrated talks.
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She said she would wait on the steps while Tom went around and opened the street door.
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The changes of angle the belt makes as it goes around the pelvis allow much greater freedom of movement.
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The city was rife with forlorn single women, and there was plenty of blame to go around.
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There is plenty of fault to go around!
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Used to go around as a foursome.
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We went around the room to get them to say a declarative sentence.
go around (sth)
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I can't go around my friends begging for a home, can l?
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In pursuit of material he went around the world six times and gave over 8,000 illustrated talks.
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She said she would wait on the steps while Tom went around and opened the street door.
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The changes of angle the belt makes as it goes around the pelvis allow much greater freedom of movement.
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The city was rife with forlorn single women, and there was plenty of blame to go around.
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There is plenty of fault to go around!
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Used to go around as a foursome.
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We went around the room to get them to say a declarative sentence.
go around in your head
go around with sb/go around together
go/run around in circles
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We've got to solve the problem instead of running around in circles , writing letters that never get answered.
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I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.
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She jumps up and down and runs around in circles .
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That's why there are no solutions and the characters endlessly go around in circles in discussions.
have a nose around
have a sniff around/round
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A dozen cemetery companies have sniffed around Hollywood Memorial and then walked away.
kick around (sth)
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Being kicked around can be a real eye opener.
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But the fact is Lombardi and Barnett have kicked around the idea of Grtezky joining the Sharks.
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Children whom everyone was too exhausted to stop were kicking around an empty fizzy-drink can.
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Civic promotion is an idea that had been kicked around before.
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He believed they understood what it was like to be kicked around by white men.
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Journalists have always had inflight magazines to kick around.
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Throughout all of this Manchester United has been kicked around like a football.
kick sb around
kick sth around
knock around (sth)
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And after knocking around for a decade he came to rest at his alma mater.
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Each new copy must be made from raw materials, smaller building blocks knocking around.
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He just knocked around with some very funny looking women.
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He was fined $ 5,000 and placed on probation for 90 days after knocking around Tony Stewart's race car.
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It would have been inconceivable for exchange control to be tossed around and knocked around in Cabinet.
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Like Jitters, she had knocked around the world a bit and wound up in Dead Rat.
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Peter: On Saturday I knock around with me mates.
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The apartment never seemed more cramped with just the two of us knocking around in it.
knock around sth
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And after knocking around for a decade he came to rest at his alma mater.
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Each new copy must be made from raw materials, smaller building blocks knocking around.
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He just knocked around with some very funny looking women.
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He was fined $ 5,000 and placed on probation for 90 days after knocking around Tony Stewart's race car.
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It would have been inconceivable for exchange control to be tossed around and knocked around in Cabinet.
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Like Jitters, she had knocked around the world a bit and wound up in Dead Rat.
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Peter: On Saturday I knock around with me mates.
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The apartment never seemed more cramped with just the two of us knocking around in it.
knock sb around
knock sth around
knock sth ↔ around
know your way around sth
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And he knew his way around.
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Bike testers these days tend to know their way around a track.
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For he is convinced he knows his way around better than anyone else on earth.
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For those who have used soft chalk pastels and know their way around the tints I would advise loose pastels.
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Fortunately, I knew my way around cars.
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He knows his way around the course and, with any luck, I felt the ground would come up soft.
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The people had been friendly, and she had known her way around.
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They seemed to know their way around; at least one of them must have been familiar with the layout.
lie around (sth)
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A writer should write, not lie around dozing in the middle of the day.
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Falling over toys that have been left lying around can be fatal for elderly people and very serious for children. 3.
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It's illustrated, with explicit photographs, so don't leave it lying around.
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Lopped off brambles lay around and the long grass was all trampled.
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Perhaps there was a bit of bread lying around somewhere.
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Thou shalt not leave illegal things lying around in plain sight.
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Virtually anything you see lying around can be used from a fruit bowl to a club.
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When it was hot, we all lay around in the grass and talked about stuff.
look around/round (sth)
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Gasping for breath, Isabel managed to twist her head away from him and look around.
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Get all your benefits sorted out and then start looking around again.
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He looks around him at everybody watching.
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I came and looked around and felt this campus is no different than the society at large.
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In the silence Johnson looked around at the porch for any details he may have forgotten.
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My heart sank as I looked around.
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Two old ladies look round in my direction.
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When they were gone, Petey crawled out and looked around.
lounge around
mess sb around
muck sb about/around
pass the hat around
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Airbus will anyway soon be passing the hat around again for an enormous 700-seat aeroplane, much bigger than the Boeing 747.
piss sb about/around
poke around (sth)
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After that he'd spent a lot of time with Jekub, poking around, finding out about it.
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By its light, he poked around in the charred remains of the nestboxes.
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Charles sat on the windowsill as Ward poked around the room.
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Fakhru went to the wastebasket and poked around with his finger.
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Have to find out for himself, no other way, poke around, listen, ask, play it carefully.
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I used to poke around the Internet and see what was new online.
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In the harsh air she poked around in the flowerpots and bushes by the front door.
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Why not let me poke around quietly?
right along/through/around etc
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Don't pull the thread right through at this stage.
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He came right through the War, just to be killed on that damned motorbike.
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He got so mad he threw the Bible out the bedroom window right through the glass.
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He had slept right through the night.
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His grey eyes stared back at me intensely, as if right through me.
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I love to hear this, but then you see guys slide right through the draft.
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Route 1 runs right through it.
run around like a headless chicken
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The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
run rings around sb
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Each time the Congress met, which was roughly every six months, Boris Yeltsin ran rings around it.
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For sheer cleverness she could run rings around them all.
see around/round sth
see sb around
see you around
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"Have a good trip." "OK, see you around."
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I had seen him around, frequently.
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I never actually met her, but I've seen her around, and I heard a lot about her.
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It's good to see you around again.
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One can imagine a Soviet general fuming to see it around her neck.
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She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days.
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The scholar sees all around the issue, not the kind of preparation for political action or most power strategies.
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There was Charlie and Polly at the boardinghouse and he had seen me around the city with-the girls at work.
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Why not the women I saw all around me, working from before dawn to dark?
somewhere around/between etc
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All the heavy materials came from junk spinning somewhere around in the solar system.
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By dimensions and purpose, the 1997 Ford Expedition falls somewhere between affordable housing and the next Trailways bus to Yuma.
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Possibly somewhere between 1901 and the present, Bobsworth had been caught with his hand in the cash box.
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Problems lie somewhere between puzzles and policy issues.
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The ideal size, in peace, is probably somewhere between 12 and 16.
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The resulting book falls somewhere between the teen diary / confessional genre and the academic feminist treatise.
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There was no definite sound, but he knew that Mabel would be somewhere around.
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Your house current is somewhere around 110 volts, which is enough to fry everything inside your machine.
talk around/round sth
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Get people talking round a subject.
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He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.
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In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.
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It was the talk around the base.
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Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.
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We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.
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We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject.
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Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?
talk sb around/round
the other way around/round
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It may also be more accurate to say that the user responds to the system rather than the other way around.
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It only works the other way round.
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Language, I have learned, by writing about this, gives birth to feeling, not the other way around.
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Only it should really have been the other way around, when you get right down to it.
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Right now, that is the other way around.
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The question is better put the other way around: will Californians pay much attention to the politicians?
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What is more, in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round.
think (that) the world revolves around you
throw your weight about/around
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But being annual they would be open to reprisals if they threw their weight around too much.
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But that bloody Caitlin, he had to throw his weight around.
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Do we in petty ways throw our weight around?
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How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way?
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It's a chance for rugby to throw its weight around.
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Maybe she could have handled that a little more tactfully instead of sounding as though she was throwing her weight around.
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Mortgage traders were the sort of fat people who grunt from the belly and throw their weight around, like sumo wrestlers.
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Very strong in his own way, not swaggering or throwing his weight about, but a great inner strength.
throw your weight around
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She likes to throw her weight around -- it makes her feel important.
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The commission has a reputation for throwing its weight around.
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Why is everyone so upset? Has George been throwing his weight around again?
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But being annual they would be open to reprisals if they threw their weight around too much.
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But that bloody Caitlin, he had to throw his weight around.
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Do we in petty ways throw our weight around?
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How dare the Nottinghamshire police suppose they can throw their weight around in this way?
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It's a chance for rugby to throw its weight around.
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Maybe she could have handled that a little more tactfully instead of sounding as though she was throwing her weight around.
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Mortgage traders were the sort of fat people who grunt from the belly and throw their weight around, like sumo wrestlers.
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The apprentice was some distant relation of Pollitt's wife; that'd be why he was throwing his weight around.
turn around and say/do etc sth
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After a couple of months, the Sioux turned around and came back west without permission.
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Each was turned around and the wrists cuffed behind their backs.
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He turned around and saw the first Stillman shuffling off in the other direction.
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He turned around and slowed down, seeing no sign of the monsters.
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Lepine turns around and starts spraying the students in the front rows with gunfire.
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She turned around and went back to sit in the road.
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There was no way to maneuver, even to turn around and get out if we had to.
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Why turn around and do the same to one of our own?
turn sth ↔ around
turn sth ↔ around
twist/wrap/wind sb around your little finger
way around/round/up
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A possible way round this problem has been suggested by Sen and others.
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Or was it the other way round?
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See diversion sign and ask B if he knows the best way around it.
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She hoped he would find another way up, but this thought still was the central meaning of his whimpers.
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Some people, at bottom, really want the world to take care of them, rather than the other way around.
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They think they gon na talk their way up on it.
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When we find ways around the size of the school, the ultimate reward is a climate that fosters Community.
what goes around comes around
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But, as the saying goes , what goes around comes around.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Don't leave all your clothes lying around .
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I'll turn the car around and pick you up at the door.
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I think the B-52's were the best band around at the time.
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It was 11:30 at night, and no one was around .
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Kevin spun his chair around to greet me as I walked into his office.
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Reporters crowded around as Jensen left the courtroom.
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Since it's your first day here, would you like me to show you around ?
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That joke's been around for years.
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The children were dancing around in a circle.
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When I finished college, I traveled around for a while before I got my first job.