I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cooked/fried breakfast (= bacon, egg, toast etc )
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Do you feel like having a cooked breakfast?
deep fry
fish fry
French fry
fried chicken (= cooked in oil )
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They filled their plates with fried chicken.
fried fish (= cooked in hot oil )
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We’re going to have fried fish tonight.
fried/poached/boiled etc eggs
frying pan
small fry
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There’s no point in arresting the small fry.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
chicken
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Stir in the chicken and fry until brown.
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Then add the chicken and stir fry for 2 minutes.
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I want to go to some little cafe and get a chicken-fried steak.
egg
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Instant scrambled eggs , frozen fried eggs, canned eggnog, and many other convenient egg foods are being market tested.
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This means a nest may contain eggs through to fry which are just becoming free swimming.
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Therefore, eggs or fry of other fish are liable to be eaten.
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Clown Loach might also prey on eggs or fry .
fish
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The long roots of Water Lettuce provide shelter for fish and fry .
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And Landless had just told him on the telephone that he had other fish to fry .
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Add the fish and stir fry for about 2 minutes until golden brown and crispy.
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Owen had other fish to fry and for the next two days he was busy on other things.
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Its roots provide refuge for fish and fry .
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It provides refuge for fish and fry in its trailing roots.
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This suggests that he had bigger fish to fry - and indeed he had.
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I use white worm to supplement the food of fish fry .
onion
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Heat the oil in a large pan and gently fry the onion and garlic for 5 minutes.
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Maybe corn cut from the cob and fried with green onions and butter.
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Melt butter and fry the onion and celery for five minutes without browning.
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Heat 1 tablespoon oil in frying pan and saute onions until clear.
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Gently fry onions , garlic and celery in a frying pan. 2.
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Java Joe and his friend Bic chopped up potatoes and began frying them with onions and garlic in a communal kitchen.
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Slice and fry 4 medium onions until soft.
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Heat the oil and gently fry the spring onions without browning for a few minutes.
potato
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Add the salt and potatoes , stir and fry until well coated in the spice mixture.
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Diana put on an apron and began to Slice potatoes for frying .
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Cook potatoes in already-boiling liquids; never keep cooked potatoes long and always fry at correct temperatures.
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Long tables with stainless-steel trays held mashed potatoes , sauerkraut, fried oysters and oyster stew.
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While the potatoes were frying she buttered the bread and made a pot of tea.
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Java Joe and his friend Bic chopped up potatoes and began frying them with onions and garlic in a communal kitchen.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
have other/bigger fish to fry
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I can't deal with this now - I've got other fish to fry.
out of the frying pan and into the fire
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fry the onions gently for five minutes.
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Mushrooms are best when fried in olive oil.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Heat the oil and fry the chicken for 10-15 minutes.
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Quickly fry rabbit pieces until golden brown on all sides, 6 to 8 minutes.
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The semiconductor devices are all fairly sensitive to excess heat, so don't fry them during soldering!
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They roasted and stewed and fried the meats and served them with traditional staples made from corn or flour.
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Whether you want to bake or boil, steam or fry , Prestige has a quality product that you can rely on.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I'll have a cheeseburger and a large fry .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A couple of weeks later I noticed 15-20 free-swimming fry .
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My Guppies keep getting pregnant but I have never seen any fry .
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She likes curry and chips, but Ralph's stir fry is probably better.
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The fry drift with the current to the relative safety of plant growths.
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The fry made the water seethe.
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
small
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Very small fry may suffer so it best to time your breeding efforts to avoid the holiday period.
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They can also be dangerous to small fish and fry , which might get stuck in the tangle of filaments and suffocate.
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But in reality it is small fry .
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These frontline soldiers are cheap, disposable small fry attached to writing pads, booklets, and smart Post-it notes.
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Feeders are small fry , though they're well paid if the ransom's high.
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Well, the reader may say, he's small fry , an easy target.
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Therefore, by adopting only smaller , slower-moving fry , a pair may further deflect attacks from its own offspring.
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The Army seemed very small fry in comparison.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A couple of weeks later I noticed 15-20 free-swimming fry .
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If you do, you simply make the burn fry .
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It is now possible for the consumer to purchase omelet mixtures ready for the fry pan.
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My Guppies keep getting pregnant but I have never seen any fry .
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Now came the scrape of metal as Mrs Arkaday shook the sputtering fry pan back and forth over the burner.
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She likes curry and chips, but Ralph's stir fry is probably better.
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The fry made the water seethe.