I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Aladdin's Cave
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Her apartment is an Aladdin's Cave of antiques, old books, and fine paintings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dark
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The door was flung wide, and inside lay a dark cave .
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We pass rocky beaches, secret inlets, muddy coves, dark hidden sea caves pounded by surf.
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When Jean-Claude emerged from the hide-out, he held out his arm and dragged me into the dark cave .
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Others, such as the Delphic Python, live in dark moist caves .
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Inside, these dwellings were dark like caves .
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He carried her off to the dark cave .
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No more visits to dark , ghostly caves , Roman!
■ NOUN
art
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Primitivism To look at the mystery of cave art means first of all to look at our own prejudices.
dweller
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Aggression would have given a survival advantage in cave dweller days and earlier and so would have been favored by natural selection.
entrance
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Gnome passage, where we headed after leaving the cave entrance , was one of the highlights of the cave for me.
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Prior to each flight, rangers offer free programs in a seating area near the cave entrance .
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Some of these riverbank cave entrances are submerged when the river is in spate making their underground passages subject to sudden flooding.
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The enterprising walker could reach Cape Matapan and look for the cave entrance to Hades.
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He became very aggressive to any other fish that came near his cave entrance .
painting
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Certainly some of their art, such as cave paintings , survives and may provide a clue as to how they thought.
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In other words, the dangers of the Internet are as old as cave paintings .
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All these concepts have been applied, successively, to prehistoric cave paintings , with different but always arbitrary results.
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Siberia became a center for the same culture that had produced the cave paintings .
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The opportunity for cave painting , in an artificial cave, demonstrated man's earliest use of pigments as paints.
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The Cro-Magnon cave paintings demonstrate that wild animals also can be part of the family.
system
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Intermittent drainage, underground watercourses and vast cave systems are features of the karst.
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At 3.1 kilometers, this dive is the longest underwater traverse of two cave systems in the world.
■ VERB
enter
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As they enter their caves , they start producing a series of high-pitched clicks.
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After entering the cave , Hawk senses such awesome power that he flees in terror.
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And for that to happen you must do one day as I did, and enter the crystal cave of vision.
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Previously, people entered caves to Join with the Goddess's body.
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Not everyone wants to enter the cave on such terms.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an Aladdin's Cave
city/town/cave etc dweller
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Added to this is the vibration caused by heavy goods vehicles and the annoyance of air traffic suffered by all city dwellers .
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Bartlett drew from the old-fashioned uniforms of the virile football player and the preening perfection of the city dweller .
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But then, city dwellers have never been long on modesty.
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It is the dilemma of city dwellers , of all those refugees from the past in search of the future.
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Most shoppers know that only cave dwellers would pay the list price for electronics goods, for example.
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Poverty has become persistent, and apparently self-reinforcing, for millions of city dwellers , most of them black or Hispanic.
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This assistance inevitably spilled over as an increase in general prosperity for the ordinary Milanese city dweller .
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Unlike many town dwellers , farmers can at least eat well.
the roof falls/caves in
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The Warriors were leading, with only a few minutes of the game to go, when the roof fell in.
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It may not be long before the roof falls in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He looked inside the cave and saw a lion.
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He spent many nights sleeping in an open orchard in torrential rain until he located a small cave .
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It was inside a cave , but bigger than any cave had a right to be.
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One day he heard a noise coming from a cave .
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Only a few of us knew about the cave .
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She'd feel safer trapped in a cave , with some dark formless danger lurking in the shadows.
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The largest system is the Lancaster-Easegill complex where there are around 30 miles of cave passages.
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We pass rocky beaches, secret inlets, muddy coves, dark hidden sea caves pounded by surf.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In October, on 3 October 1985, I was feeling so depressed I thought the walls were caving in on me.
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It is clear that the walls around the governor are caving in.
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Newport looked poised to run away with it, but Bridgend refused to cave in.
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Sixty foot drops are not really much to write home about when some one's been caving as long as he has.
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Will Grijalva cave in and go with Postil?