adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a golden age (= a time of great happiness or success )
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a television show from the golden age of British comedy
a golden era (= a time when something is at its most successful )
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a collection of songs from the golden era of rock 'n' roll
a golden opportunity (= a very good opportunity )
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The council has missed a golden opportunity to improve the town centre.
a white/golden beach
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The house was beside a dazzling white beach.
golden anniversary
golden brown
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Cook until the cheese is golden brown.
golden eagle
golden goal
golden handcuffs
golden handshake
golden hello
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New teachers are given golden hellos.
golden jubilee
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the Queen’s golden jubilee celebrations
golden oldie
golden parachute
golden raisin
golden retriever
golden rule
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The golden rule of cooking is to use fresh ingredients.
golden syrup
golden wedding
golden
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the beautiful girl with the long golden hair
golden/dark/black etc curls
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a little boy with a tangle of blond curls
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
age
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In some ways it was a golden age .
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Instead of realizing that neo-realism was a beginning, they assumed it was an end, a golden age .
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A golden age , they said.
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Both Aristotle and Plato, our major sources of information about the golden age of Athenian democracy, were deeply critical.
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For me, too, a golden age .
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Others see a new golden age of business and technology that will lift the market to unimagined heights.
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Her career is entering what can only be described as its golden age .
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He has become a scapegoat and an excuse, so that romantic writers can maintain their vision of a lost golden age .
beach
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From Mount Ampenan, and over the rocky coastline and long golden beaches is a sight to behold.
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Why the desert, when you could be strolling along the golden beaches of California?
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There are narrow, golden beaches and beautiful countryside for the day and cafés and restaurants and some discotheques for the night.
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How could she find this scene so enchanting after her years on the golden beaches of California?
boy
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Ratner is not a fallen golden boy of the Thatcher era, nor a victim of his own jokes.
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From the very beginning, Tordella was the golden boy of the Puzzle Palace.
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They are golden boys , about 17 or 18, and apparently weightless.
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Terms such as thought leader, golden boy , or winner refer to people with a power base of reputation.
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So golden boy had flipped - this week?
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First full season for Formula One's new golden boy .
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Gone in an instant was that jovial giant, that golden boy , that chestnut-haired youth whom everyone admired.
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Sugar had half the company then, was the golden boy of the decade, and was worth at least £600m on paper.
brown
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Dry-fry the chicken until golden brown .
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Cook on both sides until golden brown , then drain on paper towel.
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Rub a little salt and pepper into the chicken and dry-fry the chicken until golden brown on both sides.
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Bake in a preheated oven at 200C, 400F or Gas Mark 6 for 30 minutes until golden brown .
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Place the almonds on a baking sheet and bake them, stirring occasionally, until golden brown , about 10 minutes.
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Bake in a 400-degree oven for 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown .
days
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Where were the golden days which Paris and Chicago and Grosvenor Square had promised them?
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Nifty reputation Low-key, approachable and diffident, Matheny was the daddy during the golden days of Southwestern College art.
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In the golden days of cinema, feuds often erupted between roguish directors and powerful studio heads.
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Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
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The Capenhurst control line flyers formed in 1985 in a bid to recreate the golden days of their youth.
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Return with us now to those golden days of yesteryear.
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Even during the long golden days of peace the population had fallen.
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The sun crept up into the sky, with the long chain of warm, golden days remaining unbroken.
eagle
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Such is the site of Callanish for the golden eagle and in its circle all may find strength and truth.
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High above the immense trees which shadowed the river a magnificent golden eagle soared in slow circles.
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Other birds particularly under threat include the red kite, white-tailed eagle , golden eagle and hen harrier.
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It is framed by gentle hills that look down on oak groves that abound with deer, bobcats and golden eagles .
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Then the old female golden eagle came out into the gloom to see what the fuss was.
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I saw a golden eagle the size of a building ornament sitting in a field doing nothing.
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As the golden eagle is a protected species you prohibited by law from going anywhere near its nest.
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Black said Diana was the only golden eagle used in a bird show in Southern California.
egg
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I thought your flat feet were firmly on the ground and your grubby little fingers always ready to grab the golden egg .
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The next time up the stalk, Jack stole a hen that laid golden eggs .
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High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs .
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On his way out, Jack stole the goose that laid the golden eggs .
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The most popular story concerning her conception was that a golden egg tumbled out of Chaos in the beginning of the world.
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An ugly duckling, like a printing press, was transformed into a well-behaved goose laying golden eggs .
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They killed Goosie Lucy so now there will be no interest payments from her - and no more golden eggs .
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The market for golden eggs has dried up completely.
era
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Sensing the audience craving for that golden era , the band played it up.
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It aims to raise money and interest in the craft from that golden era of aviation.
girl
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Completing the trio of golden girls is Millicent Martin - it's a formidable combination.
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Even without mistakes, the halo effect eventually wears off when some one else emerges as the new golden girl .
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Tennis Golden deal for the golden girl from Florida.
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Some observers said Jones would be likely to suffer from guilt by association and the tarnishing of her golden girl image.
glow
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Old-fashioned amateurs used to admire colours with a golden glow , which conservators have demonstrated were the effect of discoloured varnish.
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It was a dazzling golden glow .
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The colour to possess is a golden glow for six months a year.
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So why not give your legs a golden glow with a little fake tan?
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The sun had dipped below the horizon, leaving only a soft golden glow in the air.
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If she had not quite the fire and the golden glow of her ancestors, nobody remarked it.
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Sometimes a pulsing golden glow would race up the translucent walls until it was lost in the haze overhead.
goose
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But the real golden goose comes in the second round.
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The golden goose became a turkey.
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We don't want to give our golden goose a head-start.
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If it does not kill off the golden goose , it will certainly let it starve to death through neglect.
hair
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She was slender and very fair with long golden hair and as unlike as possible any Naulls that had ever been.
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His golden hair was parted down the middle, and he wore a gold ring on his right hand.
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He was just there, with his long legs and his smooth shoulders and his golden hair and his pride.
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The cavalry officer pushed a hand through his long golden hair as he ran up the house steps.
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He required the boy to return with three golden hairs from the giant of the kingdom in order to keep his bride.
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The smiling, classic features, topped by the golden hair .
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Fingers of energy, disguised - a felicitous whim - as strands of your golden hair .
handshake
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Good news about my golden handshake .
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I never negotiated a corporate prenuptial agreement and never received a golden handshake .
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Redundancy payment, or a golden handshake in lieu of notice, up to the value of £30,000.
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And the reward for dismissal is a golden handshake of several years' pay.
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Usually, you will be more concerned with compensation for loss of office colloquially known as a golden handshake .
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He should be able to spare £5,000 out of his golden handshake .
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He will walk away with a reported golden handshake of £400,000.
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A soft approach can be taken with management on job security, benefits-in-kind, salaries, golden handshakes and so on.
jubilee
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The highlight of Gibson's later years was the Polyethylenes 1933-83 golden jubilee conference in London in June 1983.
light
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The fields and woods were bathed in golden light overlaid with a blue haze of heat.
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I looked down at the buildings outlined in the distance and thought of the tombstones outlined in the golden light .
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The Kilmarnock bus came through the trees with its tiers of golden light .
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Up above, the aspen leaves were quivering in the golden light .
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Outside, the garden looked more beautiful than ever in the golden light of late afternoon.
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The restaurant, open only for dinner, is handsome, cast in a warm golden light .
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He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light .
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The evening sun slowly ducked behind jagged mountains, radiating golden light and painting long shadows across the water.
moment
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In return I've been given golden moments .
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On the opening day of Olympic swimming competition, the truly golden moment was bronze.
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For companies, the Olympics is a golden moment .
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It was a golden moment for scientists building a potent new atomic accelerator at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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In these early golden moments , before anyone she knew was killed, nothing went wrong.
oldie
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But after ramming their words back down their throats his enormous smile shows how delighted he is to be a golden oldie !
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Nor does anybody really expect a golden oldie like James Taylor to have much truck with contemporaneity.
opportunity
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The agenda gave Sutton a golden opportunity to stamp his authority on the paper.
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But the country as a whole may have missed a golden opportunity to put its fiscal house in order.
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Classic footage, but a golden opportunity wasted to trace his career from his Olympic gold medal days.
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Personally, I think you have a golden opportunity before you.
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Then in November came a golden opportunity .
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To some animals, this moisture is their golden opportunity and perhaps their signal for dispersal.
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Once again in desperate time trouble, Karpov misses this golden opportunity .
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Tamny was appalled that Harleston had passed up a golden opportunity to dismiss Jeffries.
parachute
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Mr deVries says it was never clear the exact terms of Mr Homburg's golden parachute or his priority shares.
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He bailed out at just the right time and floated the short distance to earth in a golden parachute .
plover
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Birds under threat include dunlin, golden plover , black grouse, merlin and hen harrier.
retriever
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Dennis Griffith, from Swindon was bitten on the face and hands by his golden retriever .
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Twenty years later, he got a golden retriever and named her Allie.
rice
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The group displayed material from Syngenta, the multinational which holds the golden rice patents.
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Monsanto's patents are by no means the only barrier to producing golden rice , but they are a major one.
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Potrykus's goal is to distribute golden rice free to peasant farmers in all poor countries where rice is grown.
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They would cross it with varieties adapted to local conditions, and golden rice could be planted in paddies by 2004.
rule
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So here are a few golden rules to follow ... just in case the sun keeps shining.
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They discovered and applied the golden rule of leading change: Do unto yourself what you would have others do unto themselves.
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The first, golden rule is that children do not learn at an even pace.
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In terms of the golden rule of change, it caused them to do unto themselves what they wanted others to do.
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Aspiring rock artists should remember one golden rule when dealing with the press: there are no rules.
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Remember the golden rule of legal PR-keep the client in the picture.
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There are two golden rules in training.
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The golden rule is to use a drawing program which builds its image from instructions rather than individual dots.
sand
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She was kneeling on a beach of golden sand .
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She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate.
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Le Sport is surrounded by tropical gardens on a secluded bay of golden sand .
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Swimming Swimming from Colwyn Bay's 3 miles of golden sand is safe and is ideal for families.
sands
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The walk southwards brings you to Widemouth Bay, a large expanse of golden sands .
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Gran said that once Wickrithe had been all golden sands .
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Miles of golden sands along the Adriatic.
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It is ten miles of golden sands backed by pinewoods.
syrup
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She made touching things for the children called mock devil's-food-cakes, concocted out of cocoa, golden syrup , carrots and soya flour.
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Porridge with golden syrup was a real treat in Walworth.
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Put the sugar, butter, vinegar, golden syrup and water into a heavy saucepan.
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The trees around the garden in the centre of Allen Square were spread with golden syrup under the street lamps.
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Milk in a brown jug and a choice of sugar or golden syrup still in its green and gilt can.
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Harvey's face was near, his fair hair plastered close to the skull like golden syrup .
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Lamp-lit faces around a table where cold-weather food steamed, hearty stews and puddings running with golden syrup .
thread
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He should have read the writing on the machine they gave him to spin the golden thread .
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Yet there seems to be a dearth of people arguing consistently using a golden thread methodology.
wedding
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Her golden wedding band gleamed on the shelf.
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Another successful choice would be a golden wedding anniversary.
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The pair, both 73, decided to quit on the same day they celebrated their golden wedding .
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The golden weddings and stories of handbell ringers and emergent skiffle groups were getting a bit tame, by comparison.
years
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There were exaggerated expectations for one thing, a more or less inevitable consequence of those golden years .
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During these golden years of instruction, parents can make a world of difference by staying engaged and supportive.
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The oil crisis alone could not have shattered the confidence which capitalists felt during most of the golden years .
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The 1960s were expansive, golden years for the television networks.
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The Twenties were golden years of motoring design.
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Every long table is filled with oldsters in their golden years costumes-juvenile ensembles of short pants, shirts, and sneakers.
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But few celebrities worked so hard to ensure that the proceeds from the golden years all ended up in her coffers.
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He suspected that was what his father originally had in mind for his golden years .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
kill the goose that lays the golden egg
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High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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golden sunlight
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a golden statue
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bake in a pre-heated oven for 40 min until golden .
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Every leaf was picked out in golden radiance.
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I once dreamt of her as an angel with golden wings.
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Sensing the audience craving for that golden era, the band played it up.
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She lay on the bed and pulled the coverlet up over herself and the golden Satan shone behind her closed eyes.
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The tops will brown before the glazed bottom so let the buns bake until the tops are a deep golden brown.