I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
goose pimples
wild goose chase
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It looks like they’ve sent us on a wild goose chase.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brent
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Skeins of dark-bellied brent geese flew down-river after a daytime of feeding in fields.
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But at this time of the year brent geese are also to be found foraging.
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The dark-bellied brent goose is small, neat and sooty black, with white neck streaks and a white stern.
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If whoever bought it had an unsavoury reputation it wouldn't do much harm to the seagulls or Brent geese .
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Look for a factory chimney cloud - or a wisp of smoke curling across the sky; that will be brent geese .
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We stayed mainly near the shore and saw ringed seals and a nice flock of Brent geese .
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Skeins of brent geese flew over.
golden
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But the real golden goose comes in the second round.
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In a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium-high heat, brown goose in oil on all sides until golden .
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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.
grey
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What happened to the old grey goose ?
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The old grey goose is dead.
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About 90 percent. of all grey geese identified in Sussex are of this species.
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These elegant grey and white geese hold a special place in my affections.
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Through Falkenna she glimpsed grey geese , but Scathach - expert with sword and spear - was an inaccurate shot with sling.
wild
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Save yourself a wild goose chase round the shops.
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With older wild goose , braising is the preferred method of cooking.
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There have been many wild geese chased, that is not how we like to go on.
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Has a wild goose grown desperate and confused by the disappearance of all grain and berries?
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Often there was a soul-stirring glimpse of wild geese arrowing northward across an ice-blue sky on their spring migratory flight.
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But today, from Loke Hide, we were looking at a single wild red-breasted goose .
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They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase.
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I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase, this is a lame duck chase.
■ NOUN
bump
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The sound of the rain made me cold, brought up goose bumps .
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If he gets goose bumps , we may never know.
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As they ran, the cool air animated them and raised goose bumps on their glistening flesh.
chase
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Save yourself a wild goose chase round the shops.
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They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase .
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I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase , this is a lame duck chase.
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Instead of that, he had become involved in what was most likely a wild goose chase .
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On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase .
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Each shopping trip is a wild goose chase .
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Looking around the room, Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase .
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The photographs might represent a wild goose chase after the random neuroses of an insecure young woman.
egg
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I'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg .
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One day Beate finds a large goose egg on the ground.
pimple
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Some one screamed, a high shrill piercing noise that caused her to break out in goose pimples .
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I got goose pimples when the trumpets sounded and you all marched in.
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That set our teeth on edge and bring our goose pimples rising like porpoises after mackerel.
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There were goose pimples on her arm.
snow
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In general terms, the snow geese and ptarmigan feed mainly on vegetation.
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With the departure of the snow goose ended the visits of Frith to the lighthouse.
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The snow goose opened its round yellow eyes and nibbled at it.
■ VERB
cook
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This will cook Arthur's goose .
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With older wild goose , braising is the preferred method of cooking .
kill
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High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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If it does not kill off the golden goose , it will certainly let it starve to death through neglect.
lay
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The goose lay , neatly trussed, on a cold, marble slab.
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On his way out, Jack stole the goose that laid the golden eggs.
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High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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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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By repute, it was a goose that laid a golden egg.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gaggle of geese
kill the goose that lays the golden egg
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High taxes kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
wouldn't say boo to a goose
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fowl, including ducks, geese, chickens and also pigeons, were kept near to the settlement in closes and open spaces.
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She stood watching silently long after the goose had vanished.
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That may be enough to give a little goose to the index, some say, but not enough to move it.
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The Gascons favour the goose and its by-products.
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The snow goose opened its round yellow eyes and nibbled at it.
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The vet diagnosed botulism so undoubtedly the goose was infected.
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What happened to the old grey goose ?
II. verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gaggle of geese
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
wouldn't say boo to a goose
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did the Strong money funds take higher risk to goose their yields?
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Once or twice, Jack had casually goosed her as she reached for a file.
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Or pulled around, or fondled, or goosed.
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The one who goosed me at Silk City the night we were there.
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They pinched us and goosed us and ground their knuckles into our scalps.