I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bang/hammer on the door (= hit it very loudly and urgently )
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A policeman was banging on the door across the road.
hammer and sickle
hammer out an agreement informal (= decide on an agreement after a lot of discussion and disagreement )
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Traders are focused on Washington, where Republicans and Democrats are hammering out an agreement to balance the federal budget.
steam engine/train/hammer etc (= an engine etc that works by steam power )
take a hammering/beating (= be forced to accept defeat or a bad situation )
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Small businesses took a hammering in the last recession.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blow
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Such speeds are far faster than any hammer blow and considerably faster than the flight of bullets.
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The tunnels were quiet during the hammer blow of 1972.
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It brought another hammer blow to Britain's depressed farming industry.
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She glanced at her own reflection in the mirror and the answer came with the suddenness of a hammer blow .
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Labour's energy spokesman says the decision is bad news for the consumer and a hammer blow for the coal industry.
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Granny's thoughts had the strength of hammer blows and they'd pounded her personality into the walls.
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The sight was a hammer blow to Yuri Rudakov.
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It was followed by a hammer blow that echoed like thunder through the steel hulk.
steam
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To Leeds the news must have come like a blow from a steam hammer .
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The steam hammer seen here was his best known work.
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The concussion of the exploding wave drove me down like a steam hammer .
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There are three gas furnaces, one each for the steam hammers , drop stamps, and rolling mill.
■ VERB
come
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As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.
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The miracle of their obedience came with the hammer at dawn.
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He had come across rooms with hammers hammered into the walls, screwdrivers screwed into the floor and saws sawed in half.
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In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.
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Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.
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It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.
go
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Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.
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The rest of his collection is going under the hammer .
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So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.
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They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.
hit
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Fawcett then hit him with the hammer .
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Put the Blob on the waxed paper and hit it with the hammer or rock.
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The children had been suffocated and Mrs Garvey hit with a hammer .
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Meanwhile detectives have revealed that his wife died from head injuries after being hit with a hammer .
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The best way to do this is to wrap them in a thick layer of newspaper and hit them with a hammer .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hit/drive/hammer etc sth home
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any friction at the hammer pivot will slow down the movement of the hammer, tending to make the action sluggish.
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John Henry threw his hammer and snuffed out the fuse.
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Milk, two ice cubes crushed with a hammer between two squares of paper towel, and Maalox.
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Now move the wooden handle of the hammer gradually over the edge of the table.
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The hammers in Stein's vis-à-vis piano action point away from the player.
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The hammers in Streicher's down-striking action point towards the player.
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The Plot John Henry was born with a hammer in his hand and was the strongest baby anybody had ever seen.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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All afternoon, Martin had been hammering away in the conservatory.
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Clinton hammered away at campaign themes tailor-made to appeal to predominantly white swing voters who might otherwise vote for Republican Bob Dole.
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Often George came in at five o'clock in the morning to hammer away at the pirate ship in the carpenter's shop.
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Mrs Clinton began hammering away at the issues during her appearance before Florida Democrats at the Democratic convention.
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Thereafter it hammers away with great effect until it has excavated a narrow tunnel as much as three feet long.
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I keep hammering away at this point but it applies to so many areas and it's so rarely done.
home
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He was here to hammer home plans to spend more on education.
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If not, the Internal Revenue Service certainly hammered home the message.
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That lesson was hammered home by a 1995 Louis Harris and Associates poll commissioned by the Shriners.
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But the vice-president kept hammering home his belief that every vote cast in Florida should be counted before the presidency is awarded.
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This is hardly surprising, given the way governments the world over have for decades hammered home the dogma of prohibition.
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The real danger of these rigs was hammered home recently during a small Open match which saw me ducking for shelter.
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That is precisely the message that our consumer society implicitly hammers home .
■ NOUN
agreement
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The meetings are not meant to serve as glorified works councils, hammering out grand agreements on petty feuds.
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The toxic substances department must approve it and hammer out a legal agreement with the group before moving forward.
ball
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Fifteen minutes later centre forward Quigg was left free to hammer the ball home from 20 yards.
door
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Men poured from both and raced through the cheering crowd, up the steps, to hammer at the door .
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Instead, he marched through the hedge and up her back steps and hammered on the door .
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The shock started me hammering at my door again.
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Soon he was hammering on the door , thud after thud, a noise fit to wake the dead.
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She stopped shouting and gave up hammering on the door .
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Seb hammered at the door and tugged at the bell-pull but without anyone answering.
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Owls were hooting in the forest when some one came running up the path and hammered on the door .
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Sometimes he had every bedroom full by 9 p.m. and people would be hammering on the door to get in.
heart
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As the child subjected him to a solemn, no-nonsense appraisal, Ashley's heart began to hammer behind her ribs.
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I stood up, my heart hammering , hyperventilating.
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Her heart was hammering as she went up the narrow, cheerless stairs she'd last climbed before her interview.
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He could feel his heart hammering in his chest, his blood coursing like a dark, hot tide in his veins.
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Presently she heard footsteps coming along the gallery, and sat on the bed, waiting, her heart hammering a little.
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Her heart started to hammer against her ribs, her brain went into overdrive.
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Walking to the kitchen, she filled the electric kettle, her heart hammering in her chest.
nail
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Or does one hammer the nails into one's own coffin?
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The Halutzim were busy packing boxes, hammering nails , tying up chests, writing labels with thick pens and pencils.
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This will be awkward to achieve ergonomically because it is more easy for a person to hammer nails straight in.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hit/drive/hammer etc sth home
take a hammering/be given a hammering
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After a weekend of sawing and hammering nails into 2-by-4s, the dog house was finished.
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Chicago hammered San Diego 13-2.
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Her heart hammered against her ribs.
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Investors have been hammered by a series of dismal economic reports.
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The children hammered at the door to be let in out of the rain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Clinton hammered away at campaign themes tailor-made to appeal to predominantly white swing voters who might otherwise vote for Republican Bob Dole.
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Finally he got a job hammering spikes to make the great railroads.
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If not, the Internal Revenue Service certainly hammered home the message.
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Jane dreamt she was clinging to the edge of a cliff, and her bank manager was hammering at her fingers.
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The men hammering it together had beckoned us, beaming, inviting inspection.
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Until he found his goal in life, hammering spikes into the railroad tracks, he was not fully happy.
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We could hear them coming up the stairs right to our door and then shouting and hammering on it.
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White cleared up to the pink with a break of 31 but missed a difficult black which McManus hammered into the yellow pocket.