I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flick/flip a switch (= move it so something starts or stops )
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You start the fan by just flipping this switch.
flick/flip/leaf through the pages of sth (= turn them quickly )
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She was flicking through the pages of a magazine.
flip chart
flip chip
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flip-chip technology
flip phone
flip side
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The flip side of the treatment is that it can make patients feel very tired.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
coin
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Given those odds, claims Salsburg, one might as well flip a coin .
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The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.
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If memory serves, we actually went into the hall and flipped a coin .
lid
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Every now and then, everyone knows, folk flip their lid and take their holiday anyway.
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He flipped the lid open and shut with his thumb.
page
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More likely Goya passed them around his friends or flipped through the pages .
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I flipped through the pages of my field guide.
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You flip the pages , read their comments.
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He bought a magazine and flipped its pages while he drank the coffee.
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When I read to him, he flips the pages in my hand to see what lies just ahead.
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He flipped back the pages of his note-book, and found the scrappy diary of those few days.
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The imam excused himself, leaving me to flip through the pages of the album.
switch
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He flipped a switch and the front door opened.
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What if you forget to flip the switch reactivating the air bags and then hit another car head on?
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MPEG-2 will succeed MPEG-1, but not by flipping a factory switch .
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Glover watched light drain out of both him and Paul as if some one had flipped a switch .
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The phones were dead until Leese flipped the master switch .
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He flew a certain route, flipped the mission switches .
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Guy flipped on the power switch and caught up, pacing the other rider for several miles.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
toss/flip a coin
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We like to get out a map, and flip a coin to decide where to go.
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Eddie DeBartolo and Carmen Policy: Flip a coin .
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Given those odds, claims Salsburg, one might as well flip a coin .
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I tossed a coin with Bill Wall for this, and won.
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If memory serves, we actually went into the hall and flipped a coin .
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Like tossing a coin to decide on a man's life.
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The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.
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Torn between passing the letter to Alice or Amelia, Robert tossed a coin and settled on the latter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Come help me flip this mattress.
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I flipped over the card to see what was written on the other side.
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She flipped the pancakes over with one smooth movement.
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The guy just flipped out and started shooting.
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When Jerry found out about the money we took, he completely flipped his lid.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I flipped the machine off and stared at it.
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I shake my head at the pill, and he flips it off the bed like it was a bug pestering him.
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I started to flip through it, but I didn't know where to begin.
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Moments before touchdown, he flipped on the aircraft landing lights.
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She flipped her mind and the handle came back, a size or two too large.
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They flip the embroidered cover off the stereo.
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Though he has flipped and flopped on many issues, he has stuck to beliefs typical of farm-belt Republicanism.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chart
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At her shoulder was an electronic flip chart she was using to assist in her presentation.
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So he stole a big A2 flip chart from work - the council has lots - and that sorted everything out.
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Resources Possibility of shelving, box files and flip chart .
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Notes previously written on a flip chart pad.
side
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The facts, which spilled out in no particular order, revealed the flip side of the fairytale.
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On the flip side of partnerships, Gates talked about Microsoft's competition.
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But the flip side of that effectiveness is quite clear when things go wrong.
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But there was a flip side to the coin.
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But there is also the flip side of the coin.
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It did sound very much like the flip side to Mrs Richards' story.
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It is probably obvious that each of these difficulties has an educational flip side .
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All this love had brought her, taught her: the flip side of ecstasy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a backward flip
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It'll be decided by a flip of a coin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any flip of the remote control will serve up countless images of graphic violence.
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His craggy features dissolved into a breathtakingly attractive smile, and Robbie felt her insides give the oddest little flip .
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The guys tapped on their heels, balanced precariously and even attempted a few body flips.
III. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the good news is the flip side of the bad: every change creates new needs.
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Manion drew two equations on the flip chart.
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On the flip side is the Hong Kong flag, also red but with five leaves forming a star.
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The flip side of virtue is pride.