DOZEN


Meaning of DOZEN in English

number

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a round hundred/dozen etc (= a complete hundred etc )

baker's dozen

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a dime a dozen

Jobs like his are a dime a dozen.

Girls are a dime a dozen.

Metaphors of Britain's decline have been a dime a dozen in the post-war years.

Sam told her not to worry, jobs like that were a dime a dozen.

So-called solutions to the longitude problem had been a dime a dozen even before the act went into effect.

half a dozen

About half a dozen women and children had appeared and were standing, holding hands, watching me.

Customer-driven systems also allow individuals to meet their needs in a holistic way, without applying to half a dozen different programs.

He found half a dozen fishermen seated under the palm trees at the foot of the Co-operative quay.

I still do half a dozen or so of these scarlet cross-overs a year, to this day.

Inside the cafe there were half a dozen other people.

Perhaps half a dozen were Hispanic, and the rest, black.

Sunday night he was wild on at least a half dozen.

it's six of one and half a dozen of the other

nineteen to the dozen

Everybody except Jurnet clapped, still talking nineteen to the dozen.

Theories must be abounding nineteen to the dozen.

They often went on excursions, always talking away nineteen to the dozen.

talk nineteen to the dozen

Everybody except Jurnet clapped, still talking nineteen to the dozen.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Having only one hand, and having that in a dozen things, he has no other to hold out.

I had some memorable test drives after buying a dozen 6R4s when they were up for grabs at the factory.

Prescott, the administration building, looked the same, except that there were a dozen cars parked outside.

The mood is relaxed-very advisable if you have a dozen sheep to get through in a day.

There were a dozen feature films made, with filming lasting from one week to four months.

They live, like their ancestors, in packs of a dozen or so.

We take two dozen blues and a dozen of their predators, the small green crabs that are never far away.

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