I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bully boy
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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One of the biggest bullies at the time was the king, Herod.
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Extract 1 T: You're a big bully Denise.
■ NOUN
boy
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Once you get a fertile soil, the bully boys tend to take over and only about half a dozen plants flourish.
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My rescuers were three bully boys , swords and daggers stuck through their waists.
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Why should three bully boys help a stranger in a darkened alleyway off Cheapside?
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My babies had become thorny bully boys , and I found that my garden was not so large after all.
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It could be the bully boys .
pulpit
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Mrs Richards views her new office as a bully pulpit .
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But Clinton, aides say, is eager to show this bully pulpit approach amounts to more than campaign tactics.
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And while that makes him a lame duck, he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit .
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And Clinton's ability to use the presidential bully pulpit has of course been massively compromised by events since 1996.
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Bill Clinton will mount the bully pulpit and tell you whatever he thinks you want to hear.
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Use the bully pulpit to make school-to-work an ongoing part of the school-reform agenda.
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So what did he do with the bully pulpit that he was handed by his peers?
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Abuse of the bully pulpit makes a leader just a plain bully.
■ VERB
use
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And Clinton's ability to use the presidential bully pulpit has of course been massively compromised by events since 1996.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A group of kids stood by and watched the school bully beat up a smaller boy.
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Critics describe the mayor as an arrogant bully who hates to be contradicted.
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the school bully
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alternatively, you can completely rearrange the decor in the tank so that the bully becomes confused.
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Big Willie was the toughest dude on the block, a bad combination of vicious clothes-taking bully and mean, gutsy fighter.
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He wasn't, in fact, a very nice boy, a bully and rather stupid.
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Of course Hell was peopled by bullies.
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Only a bully could have stood up to the bullying party bureaucracy.
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She said she had never seen the bully side of me before.
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Tom Arnold plays the grown-up bully .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
school
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Many have awful stories to tell about being bullied at school , losing jobs, broken relationships.
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He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest.
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I got bullied in secondary school and Eminem helped me stand up for myself.
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My youngest child is being bullied at school and I want to send her to St Saviour's.
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Anyone who's had a child bullied at school knows the depth of children's capacity for cold, organised cruelty.
way
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Even in these days of lobbying, Members of Parliament will not be bullied in this way .
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Isaac bullied his way into second, a gear not made for the speed they had accumulated.
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It will be coercion and bullying all the way .
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They had pushed and pushed and bullied their way into a freedom that both scared and embarrassed them.
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He'd tried to bluff and bully his way out of his terrible mistake, but Volkov wouldn't be intimidated.
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They are just nuisances to be bullied out of the way .
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The report names companies prepared to bribe and bully their way to lucrative logging concessions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A group of girls would bully the younger kids, and force them to give them money.
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Ben didn't want to study law, but his father bullied him into it by threatening to cut off his allowance.
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Don't let the salesman bully you -- it's your choice.
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If you try and bully him into giving you the money he's sure to say no -- you should try and persuade him gently.
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Ricky used to bully the younger kids in the neighborhood.
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The court heard that the head of department would routinely bully and humiliate workers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All he wanted was a belly-full of berries and a chance to bully the small birds.
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Just because she was the junior on the Diary team, it didn't mean that he could constantly bully her.