noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
uncanny
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But like most of his colleagues in Hampden Babylon he had an uncanny knack of pushing the self-destruct button.
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He had a deep knowledge of the habits of all the local wildlife and an uncanny knack of befriending them.
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Keanu Reeves plays a criminal defense attorney who has an uncanny knack for picking sympathetic jurors.
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As some one said ... him and Strach had an uncanny knack of supporting each other when needed.
■ VERB
get
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It may take time for you to get the knack .
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You got to have the knack .
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Once you have got the knack of this you can do it anywhere, whenever you need it.
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With a little more coaching he might get the knack .
lose
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Basically, I just seem to have lost the knack with men.
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And his six goals in his four games while on loan to Coventry City have shown he has not lost his knack .
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He seems to have lost the knack when he most needed it, for he was stoned to death by unimpressed heathens.
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Mr Barre's brutality has made him plenty of enemies, and recently he has lost his knack for balancing the clans.
make
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But he had the unhappy knack of making enemies in the party.
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As ever, the knack is to make yourself stand out from the corporate crowd.
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It has the knack of making the usual unusual, the ordinary extraordinary, the commonplace special.
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He had found in school that he didn't seem to have the knack of making himself come.
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He had perfected the knack of making one really last, for which he was known and hated by several West-End barmen.