noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bush league
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bush league reporting
rose bushes
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rose bushes
tangle of bushes/branches/vegetation etc
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She followed him, pushing through the dense tangle of bushes and branches.
the Blair/Bush etc era (= the time when a particular political leaders was in power, used especially in journalism )
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The end of the Bush era was defined, at least in part, by the war in Iraq.
the Bush/Blair etc years (= when Bush, Blair etc was leader )
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The rich did very nicely during the Thatcher years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
burning
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Then there was no sound but the crackle of burning bushes .
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The Western sheep and cattle rangers cut down the big trees and put a stop to the burning of bush .
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Her hair was loose and hung on her shoulders, a burning bush .
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Millie's hair was close to the light over the table; it looked like a burning bush .
lilac
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The house was called Lilac Villa, a name no one used, though the front garden contained several ancient gnarled lilac bushes .
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A cement foundation of a farmhouse was still standing, and a few moldy lilac bushes shielded the barracks from view.
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From the rooftop terrace the Mellors gazed across lilac and bougainvillea bushes to the sea.
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This man had stripped her lilac bush !
rose
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Another witness, Alexander McEwen saw the driver lying with his arms twisted around a rose bush .
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I thought the rose bushes were beautiful, too.
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She did not want a small army camping indefinitely among her flowerbeds and rose bushes .
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I only had $ 6, so I bought a rose bush .
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I made a picture from the same flowers to show what the rose bushes would yield the following summer.
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Essentially, there is no difference between you and the rose bush in your front garden.
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Then, a little higher, it surprised them, suddenly unveiling green pasture and rose bushes with delicate pink blossom.
small
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At first sight the five all appear to live on the same species of grass, herbs, and small bushes .
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At the bottom of the plant a few small leaves develop, often forming a small bush .
■ NOUN
gorse
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I reached the hilltop and followed the track between gorse bushes ablaze with flowers.
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He lay on his stomach on a small mound and parted a dead gorse bush .
holly
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The last one flipped Agnes into a holly bush .
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Next step you would think is to go to the garden centre and look for holly bushes with boy and girl names?
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The holly bush went to give the cameras a clearer view.
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Even in winter there were blood red berries on the holly bushes .
pilot
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Harry Kane was about the best of the bush pilots .
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Thora Birch and Vincent Kartheiser brave the wilderness after the plane of their bush pilot goes down.
thorn
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It galloped towards the boy in silence, swinging a thorn bush from its arm.
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He ended up in a thorn bush where he finally managed to break free from his billowing parachute.
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A democratic committee of journalists? - a thorn bush for the editor to hide in.
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Almost as bad as the thorn bush , Lollo said.
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Together they made their way to the patch of thorn bushes which was Sabina's preferred place for drying.
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Down below, fires are being lit and the cattle are being driven gently into the enclosures of thorn bushes .
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Because if there's a thorn bush around, the ball will land in it.
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There is the camel rider of Blunt in the glaring light and the thorn bushes clutching at him with their crooked hands.
walk
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Isn't that why you came here - to experience a bush walk ?
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Didn't you go for a lovely bush walk to measure timber for the bridge?
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They bubbled with enthusiasm, all talking at the same time while raving on about the beauty of the bush walk .
■ VERB
beat
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Don't beat about the bush .
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A whole army of Girl Scouts out beating the bush .
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Eliot did not beat about the bush .
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Neither will beat the bushes for new ways to earn or save money.
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She winced at their infelicities, at the clumsy way they beat about the bush .
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It was Moua who organized housing for Hmong newcomers, Moua who beat the bushes for jobs.
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I am not a person to beat about the bush .
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Let us stop beating about the bush .
grow
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They grow into large bushes , then die as the tree canopy closes.
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You think that kind of money grows on bushes ?
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It always breeds in a larval condition, its external gills growing into great branching bushes on either side of its neck.
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These berries, plump and sweet, grew on the bushes near the very top of the mountain.
hide
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He fled into the park, because he couldn't look at Emma, and hid behind a bush .
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They hid their bags in bushes and jogged into Mount Kisco.
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Mrs Browning was bothered, she said, by a man who at night hid in the bushes by her gate.
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Investigators said the bomb was hidden in the bushes in front of the two-story building.
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For weeks after the robbery my father would hide in the bushes .
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Some oldmen hid in the bushes and tackled the newmen as a prank.
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She hid in bushes while the fiend ran to the central reservation before losing sight of her and driving off.
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You can see if anyone's coming and hide in the bushes .
rise
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Inside, the complex is immaculate, with neatly trimmed shrubs and rose bushes lining each building.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bird in the hand (is worth two in the bush)
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.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a holly bush
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gunships made their chattering runs beside us, and door gunners killed bushes.
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I thought it was a damn silly place to park if some one wanted to take a leak in the bushes.
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Some oldmen hid in the bushes and tackled the newmen as a prank.
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The forsythia bushes at the back of the santuario yielded a delicate, sweet scent in the dewy air.
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They lay under a bush near the friendly deer.