noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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champagne
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The champagne corks popped but then the reporter told us the house had been repossessed.
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Others barely notice the baskets of warm toast, the crisp bacon and popping champagne corks .
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No sooner had the excitement died down in Coventry than champagne corks were popping at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby.
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At the NoS offices the champagne corks had been popping.
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The noises of men talking and laughing and the sound of champagne corks popping filter out into the corridor.
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And the champagne corks were popping as Kirkby's latest housing co-operative celebrated its success.
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Yet no one is popping champagne corks .
■ VERB
pop
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Simultaneous popping of corks and champagne all round.
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Others barely notice the baskets of warm toast, the crisp bacon and popping champagne corks .
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Yet no one is popping champagne corks .
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He came back, enthusiastically popped the cork and poured two glasses of the fizzy wine.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Announcement of the awards set champagne corks popping.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was twiddling a piece of cork and sucking on his empty pipe.
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Hebron is a cork in the bottle.
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In 1939, leather was scarce so Magli introduced cork , fabric, velvet, fiber and wood to his shoes.
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In the living room, a cork or two popped, releasing a stinging whistle of pressure into the air.
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Once you take the cork out, hopefully other things will start to flow.
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Open the wine, lucky you've got a vacuum cork .
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Out with the corks of the wine, assuming you haven't done so already, and empty it into a saucepan.