noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stank to high heaven (= stank very much )
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The toilets stank to high heaven .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dear
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Oh, dear heavens , had Naylor, by seeing she was hurt, seen too that she cared deeply for him?
good
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It's nothing at all! Good heavens , is that the time?
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No, Ken is not my lover, good heavens , he'd be shocked!
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Have they - good heavens - got their sums wrong?
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That should keep him away from Olinda Bray! Good heavens !
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Rugs! Good heavens , man, do I pay you to stand about like a tailor's dummy?
high
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Ju-i sceptre Used by the highest deity in heaven , its head is formed into the shape of a cloud.
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It was high - heaven only knew how he had got up there!
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It stank to high heaven of salt-fish and shit, the aforementioned by far the more offensive.
■ NOUN
help
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Or they could have sold that controlling interest to some one else - heaven help us!
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Oh, heaven help her - Fabia knew then that she was in deep, deep trouble!
■ VERB
ascend
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Three pairs of dark legs, high-top sneakers at their bottoms, ascend toward heaven .
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In later times, he ascended to heaven to be crowned with stars.
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As well as a tree, Hathor was, like Lilith, the ladder on which the righteous could ascend to heaven .
descend
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A turbulent black cloud like a rumpled sheet seemed to descend from heaven .
go
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It is encapsulated in Galileo's quip that the Bible teaches how to go to heaven , not how the heavens go.
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If I have the baby I go to heaven .
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The doctrine of original sin and baptismal regeneration meant that an unbaptised infant could not go to heaven .
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The fundamentalists are saying, work hard, be born again, you can go to heaven .
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About whether he would go to heaven or hell.
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Areeeee, if I took money from you I would not go to heaven .
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Actually in the flesh, the way she went up to heaven .
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I thought I'd died and gone to heaven !
move
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We've all experienced it and most of us would move heaven and earth to avoid it.
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Bishop Auckland have also moved heaven and earth to improve their standing.
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If you knew what I was doing you'd have moved heaven and earth to stop me.
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So together we moved heaven and earth to ensure, in a difficult year, that the necessary money was made available.
raise
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Mrs. Butler brought in the tea, and raised her eyes to heaven when she saw Jenny weeping again.
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Had he jumped in, or had he been raised up to heaven ?
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Her body was raised to heaven upon her death, where it was reunited with her soul.
reach
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Off in the distance you see enormous mountains reaching for the heavens with their towering peaks.
send
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Yeah right, a little virgin, a device sent by heaven to cleanse your soul.
thank
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She gasped at the vividness of her imagination. Thank heaven that in the morning everything would be back to normal.
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Some one you thanked heaven for sending back?
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And then, thank heaven , people will have somewhere decent to bring up their children.
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You got this much snow, you thanked heaven for your warm home and waited for the thing to blow over.
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Dad's Army told us that in Britain, thank heaven , nothing worked like clockwork.
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She had her thoughts under control again, thank heavens .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
God is in his heaven, all's right with the world
God/Heaven be praised
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Hallelujah, and the heavens be praised ... He is giving it the look.
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However, play then we did and, heaven be praised , we did show them a thing or two.
God/Heaven forbid
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God forbid you should have an accident.
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And heaven forbid that you should be served by some one in a chain coffee house with a regional accent.
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My guess is this: Heaven forbid that you have a cancer right now.
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Or, heaven forbid , ridicule him?
Heaven/God/who/goodness knows!
be in seventh heaven
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We got Darren a puppy for Christmas, and he was in seventh heaven.
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But Leonora was in seventh heaven.
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He was in seventh heaven, so excited.
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My good friends of masher persuasion are in seventh heaven when they have the opportunity of admiring eight pretty faces.
for God's/Christ's/goodness'/Heaven's/Pete's sake
good grief/God/Lord/heavens/gracious!
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Good grief! I forgot my keys again.
great Scott!/great Heavens!
manna from heaven
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The activities of illegal immigrant vessels were as manna from heaven to the media who naturally gave them much publicity.
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The hijab is manna from heaven for politicians facing crises.
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The letters are manna from heaven, filling my time and recharging my batteries.
thank God/goodness/heavens
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Thank God the semester's almost over!
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A spare room with no room mate was available, thank goodness, at the Loch Leven Hotel.
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All I can say in these hectic times is thank goodness for Marks & Spencer's prepared meals.
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And the politicians, thank goodness, have only so much money with which to rip each other to shreds.
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He was leaving, thank goodness!
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There was no sign of him now, thank goodness.
the heavens opened
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As his relations carried him off to be buried, the sky suddenly darkened and the heavens opened .
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He'd come out without his anorak and if the heavens opened he'd get soaked.
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It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.
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Just as we set off, would you believe it, the heavens opened .
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Unfortunately, the Heavens opened on finals day, ending the good weather and causing disruptions.
the kingdom of heaven/God
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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness, sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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So when our Lord spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand, he was referring to its being qualitatively present.
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They believe the kingdom of Heaven is to do with the whole person.
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They still believe that the kingdom of Heaven is something present in the lives of men and women.
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This world, this kingdom of the Devil, will be destroyed and the kingdom of heaven shall come.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The new kitchen is heaven compared to the old one.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I used to think I had died and gone to rank-and-file heaven .
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It's the most extraordinary place - both heaven and hell simultaneously.
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Well the sun is blazing down from the clear blue heavens.