noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bobble hat
coat stand/hat stand (= for hanging coats or hats on )
cocked hat
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My mother is such a good cook she knocks everybody else into a cocked hat.
cowboy hat
hard hat
hat box
hat stand
hat trick
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Saunders scored a hat trick in the final game of the series.
old hat
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Most of this is probably old hat to you, isn’t it?
panama hat
scored a hat trick
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Saunders scored a hat trick in the final game of the series.
sun hat
ten-gallon hat
top hat
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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He was in yellow trousers and big hat .
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More options include a white patent-leather tote bag and a big straw hat or scarf tied a la Audrey Hepburn.
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It was black and he had a big shiny hat .
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The benign old woman wore a big flowered garden hat and tended a magical flower garden.
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One of his eyes was half closed, and he wore a big hat which covered most of his head.
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Many wore big hats out the door, especially Cat-in-the-Hat-style stovepipes.
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No one could see a thing round her big spotted hat .
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I walk like I seen them soldiers do - the ones with the red suits and big hats I seen.
black
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Zaborski touched the corner of his black felt hat in automatic acknowledgment of the salute although his thoughts were elsewhere.
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She wore a black coat and had a Soviet Railway badge pinned to her black hat .
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As the clock struck twelve, the Judge placed the black hat on his head.
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Betty was the Blue Girl, with a hawk-wing swoop of black hat , forbidding gaze, hands grasping the white chair.
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She was there every single night, a formidable figure in her long, black skirt, cardigan and black straw hat .
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Then Kathleen, in a purple silk dress with black stripes, a black hat , and black shoes.
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She was wearing black with a black straw hat with a deep brim like a laurel wreath.
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Behind the big drum came the band of four musicians dressed in loose black tunics and black pillbox hats .
hard
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If hydrogen sulfide or some other poisonous gas is detected, Donahue dons an airtight breathing device and a hard hat .
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You haven't got hard hats on.
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When no vapors are present, he simply wears the hard hat .
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However, cyclists make a good example because they too are starting to wear hard hats .
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When no vapors are present, he simply wears the hard hat . Hard hats, of course, are not air-tight.
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All men on site will be required to wear hard hats and safety boots at all times within the designated areas.
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Radio across town were handing out hard hats for a press tour of their nearly completed Beverly Hills facility.
large
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Lily was wearing a peach coat and dress with a large picture hat and gloves to match.
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This was shown with a large round lace hat brim, on a cream satin band.
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She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she'd just been to church.
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And she favoured large hats , like the one she had on now, with wax flowers decorating it.
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He was carefully dressed in a dandified fashion in white flannels and a large panama hat protected his head.
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Bright little bunches of cherries or grapes splashed their large hats with colour.
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Well-dressed ladies in large hats came along to hear the judgement, and the room was bright with colour.
little
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My favourites are these ones with black heads and a little red hat .
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In the end, she and Bessie man-aged to make three of them into a muff and a little hat .
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I watch this man with a red face and a little black hat sweeping all the rubbish up.
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Like the bandsmen I also wore a little black pillbox hat .
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Madeleine was so wide-eyed and chic in her full-skirted coat and little hat .
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I remember thinking how funny he looked because he wore a sort of little beanie hat .
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The women wore little hats which look like smoking caps.
old
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It was old hat , anyway.
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Many of us have been using answering machines for so long, it feels like old hat .
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The propaganda of Josef Goebbels is old hat .
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Good news for mutual funds is starting to seem old hat .
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It is as old as a hat pasted on a young man's head in a mid-Victorian family album.
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This is a concept new to the auto industry but old hat to purveyors of soap, suds and soup.
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He leaned over her, removed her cheap hatpin and her old straw hat .
red
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My favourites are these ones with black heads and a little red hat .
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The woman was wearing a red hat which Katharine impertinently asked to try on.
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Gingham dungarees, £33.99, Benetton 012. Red gingham hat £20 approx, Chipie.
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His little red hat and shoes still fitted him.
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She wore a red woolly hat and scarf and gloves, which Emma had bought her, and a dark belted mac.
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She was wearing her best coat, dark red , and a dark red hat to match.
straw
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She looked at us again, then removed her cone-shaped straw hat and covered parts of him with it.
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Inside the car were three dark men and a tall man in a white suit and straw hat .
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He wears a suit and a dress shirt without a tie, along with a straw hat that is out of style.
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More options include a white patent-leather tote bag and a big straw hat or scarf tied a la Audrey Hepburn.
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It created an odd effect, because, as he shook his head, he still fanned himself with his straw hat .
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Miss Sadie in a pink straw hat .
tall
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He's got his big winter coat on with silver buttons and his tall hat .
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Governor King was standing there, holding his tall hat in his hand.
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They had removed their tall hats and placed them on their knees.
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A buxom woman wears a tall hat .
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A typical Victorian martinet, he wore a tall hat all his life.
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Father Poole placed his tall silk hat on his head and picked up his stick.
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Agnes thought that a dumpy girl should not wear a tall hat , especially with black.
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First three nurses, wearing their strange tall hats .
top
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He paused inside, adjusted his top hat .
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Janet Flanner, cross-legged on the floor, top hat decorated with one black, one white mask.
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Gentlemen will wear morning dress with top hat , or service dress.
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He, too, wore a black top hat , a black frock coat and black trousers.
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At most weddings the bride wears a veil but at this wedding the bride was wearing a beautiful top hat .
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A reinforced riding top hat from Christie's costs £120 and the veil an extra £2.95.
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They were the people in top hats that the rest of us used to throw snowballs at.
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The tall lantern jawed villain in top hat and tails plays an organ.
white
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She was dressed in a white frock and a round white straw hat .
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He picked up my white cloth hat and fastened it to my hair with a hatpin.
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By Monday the roofs of the town were wearing thick white hats and the traffic was having difficulties.
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He thought we saw him as kind of a guy in a white hat .
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Only the white hat didn't have a chance to pull his six-shooter.
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He wore a white ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots decorated with swastikas and stars.
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She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she'd just been to church.
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Students wore red-and-#white hats instead of uniforms.
woollen
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Just a wet walker in a woollen hat , eating a cheese sandwich in the rain.
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Claris looks out from under her limp-brimmed woollen hat and asks me for an orange with a charming broken-toothed smile.
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She ought to have recognized Harry, that woollen hat , the jacket.
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And on his head a woollen ski hat with a bobble on top.
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I pulled off my woollen hat and shook out my hair and at once recognition dawned in her face.
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I pulled on my woollen hat .
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A man in overalls and a woollen hat with a bobble on top appeared.
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I was wearing a blue woollen sailor's hat as disguise.
woolly
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A choir of families, wrapped in woolly hats , overcoats and scarves, were singing carols by a crib.
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Reduce global warming by wearing a woolly hat .
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Leonard Nimoy always wears his lucky woolly hat on set. 20.
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It's a woman I think - a young black woman with a woolly hat on.
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I wish I had my woolly hat on, not my straw one.
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He doesn't quite go around in wellies and a woolly hat .
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I take off my woolly hat and try it on.
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If you can imagine a benevolent and myopic stork in goggles and woolly hat , then you've just about got the picture.
■ NOUN
bobble
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She's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom.
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You know the Dougie Rae thing, it's still bothering me, how exactly did he get the bobble hat concession?
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She sold one or two bobble hats , then moved one hundred and fifty miles away.
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And no one, but no one is wearing a bobble hat .
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You can't pull the bobble hat over my eyes.
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Yes, Henry thought sourly, pushing a torch into his anorak pocket and looking round for his bobble hat .
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They put a temporary dressing on his cut nose and his wife puts a bobble hat on his head.
bowler
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I like classic hats - this baseball cap, for instance, or a bowler hat.
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He wore a trim bowler hat and an overcoat.
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There were men in frock coats and bowler hats .
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He found Woodruffe with a tall, one-armed man in a raincoat and a bowler hat .
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His bowler hat is pushed way back on his head; his hands are thrust into his jacket.
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It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath.
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I must confess that I would prefer to see a pigtail with an earring rather than the traditional civil service bowler hat .
cowboy
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He was dressed in checked golfing trousers, cowboy boots and a cowboy hat .
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The contractor was a tall man with a beer belly and a cowboy hat .
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Ranchers turned out in force to hear him; the crowd was a bobbing sea of black and white cowboy hats .
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A man whose weathered face is all but hidden beneath a wide-brimmed cowboy hat .
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The press photographs show the artist in cowboy hat with a shotgun, surrounded by skulls and horns.
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He wore a black cowboy hat , black shirt, fatigue pants, combat boots.
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At a cattle auction, the rough men under the cowboy hats shrug their shoulders.
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A pair of buffalo horns and a cowboy hat were set above backlit, multi-colored bottles on shelves.
felt
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Her head was shrunken under a tight-fitting felt hat .
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His face was round and turnip-like, a soft felt hat crammed on it, and his boots were brown and polished.
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Mrs Kulass put on a ratty fur coat, a shabby felt hat , and put her hands inside an old muff.
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There was one in a loden green suit with a felt hat - in May! - and terrible legs.
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I wore it on cold days with soft leather boots, a mouton coat, and a large brimmed black felt hat .
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She had been wrapped in a woollen blanket and the only clothes she wore were a felt hat and fur shoes.
fur
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He is an extreme nationalist, who threatens war and expansion at the drop of a fur hat .
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The driver, muffled in his fur hat , had not noticed a thing.
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A man in a fur hat , long black leather coat, white shirt and silver tie got into the carriage.
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She washed clothes and dealt in smuggled electronic goods, rabbit-#fur hats , sunflower seeds, pearl necklaces and noodles.
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But beneath the cascading ringlets and whacky fur hats , there was undiluted vintage Gaultier tailoring.
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At last, as if at a secret signal, people leave off their fur hats .
panama
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The panama hat , in the finest woven straw, is the most classic version and a worthwhile investment.
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He wore white shoes, a dark shirt and lariat tie, a nice-looking panama hat .
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Haverford fanned himself with his panama hat and wheezed like a rusty concertina.
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David Ferric walked in wearing an undersized panama hat and a turtleneck shirt with a drooping collar.
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A maroon jacket and a panama hat with a shiny black ribbon.
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Women with stiff-brimmed panama hats turned up at the side and pinned with giant rosettes.
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He had a white panama hat with the colours of the Southsea cricket club on the hat band.
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He was carefully dressed in a dandified fashion in white flannels and a large panama hat protected his head.
sun
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They're largely similar to the Christmas versions but minus the fruitcake and cards and plus beach bags and sun hats .
trick
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There was worse to come seconds before the whistle, when Irons hit his hat trick and Swindon for once were well beaten.
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Wynalda nearly could have had a hat trick late in the first half, but elected instead to spread the wealth around.
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Ted Gilmour was the star man for the B team, claiming a hat trick of victories.
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He scored a hat trick for Rotherham t' other day.
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Part of this record-breaking hat trick was pulled off by Johnny Boy Gomes.
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Darlington were down and out a minute later when Mark McGhee crossed from the right for Maskell to complete his hat trick .
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Team captain Peter Blyth will be going for a hat trick of wins as captain - all with different teams.
■ VERB
buy
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We saw you watching us buy hats in St Malo, little sly boots.
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He bought a hat that suited him well.
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Before all my friends rush out to buy hats , I should point out that it wasn't the Bloke speaking.
draw
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At a ballot at the beginning of each session, 20 names are drawn out of the hat by the Deputy Speaker.
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First name drawn from the hat of those ordering advance tickets for the show was.
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Winners will be the first entries drawn from the hat and notified by post.
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Entries must be in by January 14, when the first 24 cards drawn from the hat will be the winners.
eat
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I wrote back, Paz said, I told him, Dada dead as dodo eat your hat .
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And if Fen thought he'd done all the chasing there, she'd eat her hat .
hang
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Rugby hangs its hat on the international game but that's also where the funds come from for the grass-roots development.
hold
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She holds her hat on her head with one hand.
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He held on to the hat and hurried on.
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If his composure is not guarded, is it fair to him to hold him accountable for hat he said?
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He was holding Maidstone's hat in both hands, turning it, feeding the brim inch by inch through his fingers.
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The life-size painting is a traditional portrait that depicts Drinkwater in a three-piece suit holding his trademark cowboy hat .
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It is important to hold on to our hats and remember that it was quite well reviewed at the time.
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Governor King was standing there, holding his tall hat in his hand.
pass
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We're going to pass the hat round later, buy some beer and go back to their place.
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Perhaps she thought that if she passed the hat the crowd would be generous.
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Also Beuys, passing through, hat and horse, quite mad.
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Nothing, if the injury persisted, but whatever a man's mates might collect for him by passing round a hat .
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Airbus will anyway soon be passing the hat around again for an enormous 700-seat aeroplane, much bigger than the Boeing 747.
pick
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He then picked up the hat .
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Philadelphia and Baltimore were just cities picked out of a hat .
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Stopping to pick his hat off the road, he looked up at the retreating men.
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Gerard Baker picked up his ranger hat from the ground where he had set it and walked me to my car.
pull
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He pulled his hat over his eyes, over his nose, his whole face, and held it there.
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He looked down at Bone and pulled out the pirate hat .
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Hocus Pocus features a rabbit magician, as well as a rabbit you can pull out of a hat and other surprises.
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She pulled off her hat , she made herself at home.
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A rabbit has been pulled out of the political hat , and might be handed to Hong Kong.
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Coming at the end of that big brass lineage, H-4 is as surprising as a rabbit pulled out of a hat .
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I pulled off my woollen hat and shook out my hair and at once recognition dawned in her face.
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He pulls on his hat , wipes his brow, spits out some quid.
put
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They felt pleased when the judge put on his black hat .
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She put on each hat and strolled around the room so everybody could see it.
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Would you have put on your disapproving hat and talked about tangled webs and reaping what you sow?
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And, third, if you put your stockholder hat on, it makes good sense.
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Mr Bumble put down his hat , unbuttoned his coat, folded his arms, and sat back in his chair.
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Nat put on his hat and walked away.
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If your hands are cold, try putting a hat on!
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I put my sales hat on only when a rep was really in trouble.
raise
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He always raised his hat when he saw me.
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At Travis's signal, Blondin, teetering on the rope, raised his hat and Travis fired.
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A curate rode towards them on a bicycle and raised his flat hat as he passed the column of men.
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He raised his hat to us and was gone.
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He raised his hat formally, and walked on.
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And so Fleury raised his hat , shook hands, and hurried away.
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Karelius contented himself with raising his hat .
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At the end of his song the young man bowed and raised his hat to the audience.
remove
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They had removed their tall hats and placed them on their knees.
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She looked at us again, then removed her cone-shaped straw hat and covered parts of him with it.
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One man in the crowd removed his hat and stood to attention, head bowed in prayer.
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Denver removed her hat and put the quilt with two squares of color over her feet.
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When he rose, he discovered that the gentleman had removed his hat .
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While the students cheered, the former prime minister slowly removed his hat and-coat and placed them on the stand beside him.
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He removed his straw hat and placed it on the empty chair beside him.
score
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He scored a hat trick for Rotherham t' other day.
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Rocastle has got to do the business, score a hat trick or something.
take
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I take my hat off to them.
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Hanson said, and the light monitor did his best, made men on all sides take off their hats .
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Whatever it was though, I take my hat off to Babs.
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The husband will take off his hat and throw it on the chair.
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And how upset they were when he took off his hat and smiled.
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She had taken off her straw hat .
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Then, just before stepping up to sign the register, he took off his hat .
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People will come to comprehend the holiness of it and take their hats off as in church.
throw
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Back home 2,000 fans greeted the news of the victory by throwing their hats into the air.
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One Republican, Fred Ronstadt, has also thrown his hat into the ring in Ward 6.
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Anyone who throws a hat into a public arena must be prepared to have it mercilessly though not maliciously trampled upon.
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In some cities, I threw my hat on the sidewalk and juggled oranges for the passersby.
tip
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Thrifty, hardworking, unemotional, they tipped their hats to no one.
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Stephen slid him a coin, the doorman tipped his hat with a smile.
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The watchman came out from his hut, tipped his hat , and opened the gate.
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Johnnie Walker tips his hat , smirks and hurries westward off the shelf.
wear
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Honey wears Bernie's unsuitable hat .
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Sometimes when the movie slows to a crawl, they chain-smoke while wearing hats .
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Her daughter was standing just inside the door, wearing her coat, hat and walking shoes.
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Unlike the other mourners, they were wearing Earnhardt jackets and hats .
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One night, a works policeman was disturbed in his office by a tramp-like figure wearing a strange hat .
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He wore a white ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots decorated with swastikas and stars.
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By Monday the roofs of the town were wearing thick white hats and the traffic was having difficulties.
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They wear square hats , when they should try sombreros.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I'll eat my hat
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If the Democrats win, I'll eat my hat!
at the drop of a hat
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He's willing to organize anything guests want at the drop of a hat.
be talking through your hat
coat check/hat check
hang up your hat/football boots/briefcase etc
knock/beat sb/sth into a cocked hat
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Cavalli had no difficulty knocking the work of other composers into a cocked hat.
tip your hat/cap (to sb)
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And with that word of reassurance, Black tips his hat to Blue and continues on his way.
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Johnnie Walker tips his hat, smirks and hurries westward off the shelf.
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Stephen slid him a coin, the doorman tipped his hat with a smile.
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The watchman came out from his hut, tipped his hat, and opened the gate.
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Thrifty, hardworking, unemotional, they tipped their hats to no one.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a big straw hat
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a cowboy hat
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In his Roos-Atkins collapsible hat and safari jacket, he might have stepped from the pages of Field and Stream.
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It created an odd effect, because, as he shook his head, he still fanned himself with his straw hat .
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Oliver swept off his battered top hat in ironic acknowledgement of her sally.
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Peasants in cowboy hats have replaced well-heeled tourists beside a pool now filled only with two inches of green scum.
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She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she'd just been to church.
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Some females were able to switch to the plaiting of straw hats, bonnets and mats.