noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
blow
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It will blow the cobwebs away.
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It blew all the cobwebs away.
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Talk about blowing the cobwebs away!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there was no dust, no dirt, no cobwebs.
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He put his hand up to his face, as if to clear the cobwebs from his thoughts, then shrugged.
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He swept her resistance aside as if it were a cobweb .
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Her wispy gray hair was loose, hanging down her back like cobwebs, and her hands were folded in her lap.
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I know that I am not meant to vac up the spiders, just their cobwebs.
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Peering through the cobwebs at the stable clock, Umberto realized he should have been up an hour ago.
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There are enough teachers who sleepwalk through their profession, mindsets clogged with cobwebs.
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This means, in the two preview episodes, brushing away canons of ethics like cobwebs.