I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
con artist
con trick
conning tower
mod cons
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a property with all mod cons
weighing up the pros and cons (= the advantages and disadvantages )
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We’re still weighing up the pros and cons of the two options.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
way
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Roy Grimshaw, 43, allegedly conned his way into the job using false references.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
all mod cons
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I have all mod cons and Mrs B. All I have to do is relax.
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Peugeot and Citroen countered that by providing diesel models decked out with all mod cons.
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The little Peugeot has all mod cons with power steering and an air bag.
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The property has many interesting features and all mod cons.
con merchant/speed merchant etc
pros and cons
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After listening to the pros and cons, Eisenhower gave him permission to go ahead.
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Again, two subgroups were formed to meet and discuss the pros and cons of the various structural alternatives.
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Each has its pros and cons.
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Here are a few candidates with the pros and cons of each.
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Such issues must be considered thoroughly and carefully; every scheme has its pros and cons.
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The pros and cons of taking disulfiram are weighed.
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The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A man pretending to be a faith healer has conned around £20,000 out of desperate sick people.
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By the time she realized she had been conned, she had lost more than $3000.
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He was trying to con me, and I knew it.
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She conned me out of $50.
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She was too embarrassed to admit that they had conned her into buying 100 acres of worthless land.
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The old lady was conned out of her life savings by a crooked insurance dealer.
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They conned the school district into buying the property.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he tricked them out of the deeds, then conned them out of £85,000 to buy a Bentley.
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If something is popular then people are being conned.
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Most of the major services have received numerous complaints from users who have been conned into purchasing illegal software.
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Roy Grimshaw, 43, allegedly conned his way into the job using false references.
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The criminals conned victims into believing that they could earn money inspecting businesses for compliance with the law.
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Yesterday, a woman claimed the same charity had conned her out of more than three hundred pounds.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mod
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The little Peugeot has all mod cons with power steering and an air bag.
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All mod cons , including stereo, video, fax and voicemail.
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Peugeot and Citroen countered that by providing diesel models decked out with all mod cons .
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It provides every mod con for high-tech tenants: built-in computer networking and high-speed internet access.
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I have all mod cons and Mrs B. All I have to do is relax.
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Plus, all mod cons: The country life ... Forties-style.
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The property has many interesting features and all mod cons .
■ NOUN
artist
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Recent weeks have seen it ride roughshod over ostrich breeders, society con artists , champagne fraudsters and the occasional fallen tycoon.
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These people-part actor, part con artist-are paid to create what we used to trust as word-of-mouth.
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La Tour was a master of light whose subjects ranged from con artists to saints.
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Thorn is determined to prove that Bilko is not just a con artist but a crook.
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Hayes is part-time con artist , part-time investigator.
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Mel Stewart brings an appealing believability to the role of veteran con artist Blue.
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Woodstock police warn that a group of door-to-door con artists were last seen...
carne
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Dinner Chilli con carne with brown rice, fresh green salad, fat-free yoghurt.
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He can't even taste the chili con carne she has waiting for him.
man
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He's one of the biggest con men in politics, and that's saying something.
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No one to care about, which is what makes him free enough to be a good con man .
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The screenplay focuses on the incongruous and interdependent friendship between a dimwitted stud and a petty con man .
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Now we have a better understanding of why con men like to target little old ladies.
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Attorney Randall D.. Eliason said Brown was nothing but a con man .
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A suspected con man is said to keep an AK-47 in the safe by his bed.
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Ice-the street-tough con man .
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News of his powers attracts con men , fanatics and hustlers to his ministry.
trick
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This is a wicked of police corruption, media con tricks and celebrity scandals.
■ VERB
discuss
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Drugs are one option, and you should discuss the pros and cons of these with your doctor.
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Again, two subgroups were formed to meet and discuss the pros and cons of the various structural alternatives.
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In the text, we discuss the pros and cons of the Tiebout principle itself.
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At first he assumed that he had dreamed of discussing the pros and cons of murdering Ivor Newley with Dougal.
weigh
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The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.
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Perhaps, although we carefully weighed the pros and cons .
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Rab weighed the cons and heard the rats.
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During the past few months, we have again weighed upthe pros and cons of reapplying now, or waiting for the time being.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of people gave money to the charity collectors, not realising it was a con .
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Newman and Redford play a couple of guys working an elaborate con .
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She wanted me to visit a fortune-teller but I thought it was all a big con trick.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Here are a few candidates with the pros and cons of each.
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However, Kurtz is not heavy-handed, laying out the pros and cons of talk culled from years of exhaustive reporting.
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No one to care about, which is what makes him free enough to be a good con man.
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Recent weeks have seen it ride roughshod over ostrich breeders, society con artists, champagne fraudsters and the occasional fallen tycoon.
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The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.