noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a broom cupboard (= for brushes and other things you use to clean the house )
whisk broom
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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The servants came scurrying with new brooms and pails; taper boys ran to replenish the wall-sconces.
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When the new broom arrived, many officers left.
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What we need is a new broom .
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And I was a new broom with a reputation for sweeping clean.
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As the new man at Century wielding the new broom , he expected that decisions and policies would come to his desk.
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A new broom has swept through everything, but the basic furnishings of the old presuppositions go untouched.
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At home in the afternoon he had bound them together in clusters to make three new brooms .
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They charge ahead with their ill-advised new brooms .
■ NOUN
cupboard
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I mean, that bit in the broom cupboard - oh, you didn't see it, did you?
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It's the same place Boris Becker got his mistress pregnant in the broom cupboard .
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The only open door led to a broom cupboard .
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Add to that a groom in a broom cupboard with the bridesmaid and a case of mistaken identities.
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Get cleaning bucket and powder and disinfectant from the broom cupboard .
handle
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Dowels and broom handles are useful.
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Pushing a broom handle up the tube will allow you to push the plunger up to this moulded shoulder and into the tube.
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With a long broom handle , a kitchen fork fixed on its end, they spike away the loose, dry divots.
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A hushed audience watched her spread her legs, and present the broom handle to her open crotch.
■ VERB
make
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At home in the afternoon he had bound them together in clusters to make three new brooms .
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Must have been ten men at that table making brooms .
sweep
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A new broom has swept through everything, but the basic furnishings of the old presuppositions go untouched.
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She was taking a broom and carefully sweeping a path, but Glover cautioned her anyway.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
new broom
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A new broom has swept through everything, but the basic furnishings of the old presuppositions go untouched.
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And I was a new broom with a reputation for sweeping clean.
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As the new man at Century wielding the new broom, he expected that decisions and policies would come to his desk.
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At home in the afternoon he had bound them together in clusters to make three new brooms.
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The servants came scurrying with new brooms and pails; taper boys ran to replenish the wall-sconces.
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They charge ahead with their ill-advised new brooms.
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What we need is a new broom.
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When the new broom arrived, many officers left.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Banister installs him in a broom closet upstairs.
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He would have reached for a broom or a piece of kindling.
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I looked back and saw them coming after me with the broom .
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I mean, that bit in the broom cupboard - oh, you didn't see it, did you?
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It's the same place Boris Becker got his mistress pregnant in the broom cupboard.
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Like the rituals of harvest and planting in pastoral societies, the desert broom tufts are a sign.
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There's pots to wash and a broom under the counter.
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We compared the sizes of the gardeners' brooms with our own.