I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a breast pocket (= on the chest )
▪
There was a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket.
chicken breast/thigh/wing
▪
Chop the chicken breast into pieces.
chimney breast
full figure/face/breasts etc
▪
clothes for the fuller figure
lung/breast/stomach etc cancer
▪
Smoking causes lung cancer.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beat your breast
make a clean breast of it
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
breast cancer
▪
Anger swelled the young man's breast .
▪
His arms were folded across his breast .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A variety of experimental technologies are being tested in the effort to find better ways to diagnose breast cancer, Blumenthal said.
▪
Fill the terrine with layers of forcemeat and guinea fowl breast .
▪
I consoled him at my breast when he wept.
▪
Nate kept patting his breast pockets, looking for his pipe.
▪
Remove breasts before the leg-thigh pieces, while still springy and juicy, and keep warm.
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make a clean breast of it
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
He drove out of Brighton cheerfully enough, munching his sandwich, climbing the London road until he had breasted the Downs.