noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fig leaf
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
leaf
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In other words it is Picasso without a fig leaf .
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But this fig leaf fooled no one.
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But there is more fig leaf than fact in this rationalization.
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Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf .
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The fig leaf , however, helped little.
tree
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What is the white fungus on the roots of the indoor fig tree , surely it is my fault?
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He did it now, dragged his chair out under the leafy fig tree , beyond the glow of the porch light.
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They had reached a flame-red Alfa Romeo convertible, parked in the leafy shade of a fig tree .
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I returned to my men and told them to unload under some fig trees on the steep river bank.
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The lovely south-facing Victorian conservatory with its wisteria and fig tree is ideal for quiet relaxation.
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The fig tree embeds its multitudes of seeds in globes of sweet pulp.
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A rush-seated wooden chair stood by the well, in the shade of a fig tree .
■ VERB
give
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The people there don't give a fig .
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The fellow said he didn't give a fig about life so why should he fear death?
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Eline didn't give a fig for Joe's comfort or his state of mind.
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Now she didn't give a fig , a house was just a building.
show
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The structure of the trie is shown diagrammatically in fig 4.4.
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Mean changes at 16 weeks in individual components of the Leicester score relative to placebo are shown in fig 2.
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The application of bigram information to the lattice is shown in fig 4.3.
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A typical result of this reduction process is shown in fig 1.2iv.
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The first example shown in fig 1 is the intro from the track Voodoo Kiss.
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You can then improvise some solos using ideas from the scales and arpeggios shown in figs 3-5.
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The wah-wah riff to the next track we looked at, Dragonfly, is shown in fig 6.
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Part of the grammar used is shown in fig 2.2.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her mouth was pursed like a little fig , and her face had momentarily registered some expression as she looked at me.
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The fellow said he didn't give a fig about life so why should he fear death?