I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a delivery man (= man who delivers goods to people )
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He got a job as a delivery man for a hardware store.
a free man
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He walked out of the courtroom a free man .
a lucky man/woman/boy/girl
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Your son’s a lucky man, having a father like you.
a man of honour
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I know Tom to be a man of honour and integrity.
a man of the people (= someone in power who understands or is like ordinary people )
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The party try to portray the prime minister as a man of the people .
a man/woman etc named sth (= someone with a particular name )
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some guy named Bob Dylan
a man/woman of principle (= someone with strong moral ideas )
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He is the only candidate who has demonstrated that he is a man of principle.
a married man/woman
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By 1957 a third of married women were working.
armed men
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The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport.
bald-headed man (= having no hair )
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a bald-headed man in a shiny suit
best man
Big Man on Campus
blind man's buff
delivery man
die a hero/rich man etc
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He died a hero on the battlefield.
dirty old man
dustbin man
enlisted men
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officers and enlisted men
family man
fancy man
front man
garbage man
gingerbread man (= a piece of gingerbread in the shape of a man )
hard man
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Jones was known as soccer’s hard man .
hatchet man
hit man
ladies' man
lady's man
like a man/woman possessed literary (= with a lot of energy or violence )
macho man
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He’s sick of being cast as the hard macho man in films.
maintenance crew/man/staff (= someone who looks after buildings and equipment for a school or company )
man boobs
man of letters
man of the match (= the best player in a match )
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Henri was named man of the match.
medicine man
men's room
modern man (= people today )
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Modern man gets much less exercise in his daily life than his ancestors.
mystery man/woman
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Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince?
Neanderthal man
New Man
odd-job man
old man
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I heard her old man beats her.
point man
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the administration’s point man on health care
remarkable man
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He’s a remarkable man .
removal company/man etc
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The removal men have been in and out all day.
Renaissance man
repo man
right-hand man
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John is Bill’s right-hand man and has put a lot of time into the team.
self-made man/millionaire/businessman
stick man
straight man
stunt man
the bin men (= the people who take your rubbish away )
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Which day do the bin men come?
the common man (= ordinary people )
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The 20th century was called the century of the common man .
the man/woman/house etc of your dreams (= the perfect one for you )
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We can help you find the house of your dreams.
trigger man
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Even if the trigger men are caught, those who ordered the killing escape punishment.
us women/men/teachers etc
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Life is hard for us women.
wanted men
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one of the most wanted men in China
white van man
women/men/residents etc only
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The car park is for staff only.
working man/people/folk
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the ordinary working man
work/writer/man etc of genius
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Wynford was an architect of genius.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Hafpor is a big man , nearly two metres tall and weighing over 100 kilograms.
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A big young man came out of the plane with a short, thin, grey-haired one - Harald and Carl.
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He always wanted to show that he was as good as the big man .
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So his wicked sister's vanished and now he's big man on campus.
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Finally Ishmael starts shouting at Queequeg and nudging him and finally awakes the big man .
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The big man appeared, suddenly.
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I be big man past him.
black
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From under the dark, dried porch roof, we are watched with unease by two old black men .
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The check the black man put into his own pocket.
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I took a tramcar a second time; when it stopped I saw a long queue of mostly Black men .
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I had never, ever, ever seen a black man kill a white man.
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Fought low, can this ageing black man rise and escape the curse of his anger?
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Ralph Ellison captured it perfectly for the black man with the metaphor of invisibility.
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As they drank tea, with Evans out of the room, a black man burst in.
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One smart thing these sisters did was lay down the burden of protecting the endangered black man .
gay
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In addition, it is an unfortunate fact that some gay men are paedophiles, however few in comparison with heterosexual men.
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It was advice that very large numbers of gay men , desperate for leadership, willingly followed.
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Are lesbians and gay men born or made?
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For many gay men such integration certainly took place.
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A little voice deep within her asks if going there with five gay men is the best way to achieve this.
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If gay men had been forming efficient cores, this would almost certainly not have been the case.
old
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Pacino demonstrates how well he can play a very old man .
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This again portrays Cassius as a hero, and Caesar as a feeble old man in comparison.
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No, the old men were the real radicals, the ones who corrupted us all.
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Table 12.3 shows the inequalities in net income between older women and men .
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Son, Isuppose you expect me to go put the old man in his place?
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It had all happened one Sunday morning when an old man in London decided that that was how it would be.
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The other day, I almost ran down an old man in a crosswalk.
other
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The qualities that make a poet are not different in kind from what other men have.
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Another man was standing up behind a chair on which one of the other men was sitting.
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To John Coffin's eye the other man still seemed nervous.
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He made off, with the other man , in a silver metro type car with distinctive red stripes.
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The other man had brown hair and a wispy moustache and wore faded denim jeans and a grey woollen jumper.
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He had repeatedly demonstrated that he had a greater tolerance of G-forces than most other men .
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Women seem to be currently more prone to seek longer-term close relationships with other women than men are with other men.
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Two other men in white ran out behind him.
rich
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She doesn't understand him, but I do - he's a rich young man with a beautiful body.
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After all, men smoke cigars. Rich men.
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The politics of deference - the rich man in his castle the poor man at his gate - held change in check.
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Although he wielded enormous economic power, Park never became a rich man and was not personally corrupt.
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Then, as now, a town council was so dazzled they rubber-stamped all this terribly rich man asked of them.
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Third is the distinction or esteem that accrues to the rich man as the result of his wealth.
white
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That means our discussion programmes, for example, should not simply consist of white able-bodied men .
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The colored in any number makes the white man nervous.
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They all represent the obsessional, neurotic and fetishistic sexuality of a gay scene, created by and for white men .
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They became involved in an altercation with two white men , Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, at a topless club.
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In the experience of friends who canvass for the Labour party, old, white , middle-class men are the rudest.
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After refreshing himself at the bar, Isaac came back for him, prescient to the altered expectations of official white men .
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You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men .
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Gasa is a black woman; her attacker reportedly is a white man .
young
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A younger man leaned against the wall and fingered a guitar.
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The young man could watch Theresa walk past a window.
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Kirov had opened himself up so that the younger man would trust him enough to confide his deepest thoughts.
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They were all babies, and he was a young man again.
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Three young men had got out and were looking at them.
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He shook his head to drive away some bottleneck flies straying from the vile puddle in front of the horse-faced young man .
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Sir Henry was a young and healthy man .
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A young man who overestimated his ability got himself badly hurt.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
England expects that every man will do his duty
Invisible Man
Man proposes, God disposes
Mondeo man
The Invisible Man
a changed man/woman
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Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
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My father came back from the war a changed man.
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She returned from her travel a changed woman.
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But when he came home he was a changed man.
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He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
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He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
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He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
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Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
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Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
a fine figure of a man/woman
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Vellios was a fine figure of a man.
a fine figure of a man/woman
a fine man/woman etc
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And he was a fine man, a good man.
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Aye, a fine man, Elizabeth thought admiringly.
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Ben's a fine man, but he does talk so much.
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He was a fine man, Con Meredith-Lee.
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I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio.
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Really sad case, that, because he'd been a fine man.
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She was a fine woman, unspoilt by childbirth, her body hardened by fieldwork.
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You're a fine woman when you're roused, my darling.
a man/woman etc after my own heart
a man/woman etc of few words
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Bill Templeman was a man of few words .
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Blitherdick, usually a man of few words , had become lachrymose about Blenkinsop's enjoyment of a good wine.
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He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words .
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He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures.
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He was a man of few words in any case, Maggie noted.
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I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career.
as the next man/person
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After a while, everybody will have the technology to make a movie look as cool as the next person.
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All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person!
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Now Glover himself was as female as the next man, keeping an eagle eye on boys.
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She figured the guys could see for themselves then that he could be as vulnerable as the next man.
be a man/woman of the world
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Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
be all things to all men/people
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I finally realized I could not be all things to all people.
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Andrea felt tremendous pressure to succeed, to continue to be all things to all people.
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Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.
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For years, the stores had managed to be all things to all people.
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In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people.
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It is all things to all men ... and this is perhaps its number one axiom.
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No-one is all things to all people, and Anthea is no exception.
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Politicians have to be all things to all people.
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The single truck was all things to all men and women.
be your own man/woman
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She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.
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Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
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Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.
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At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.
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But Erlich was his own man.
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He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.
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He was his own man, after all.
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Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
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Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.
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The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.
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You can be your own man.
be/feel like a new man/woman
grown man/woman
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Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
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Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
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He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
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She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
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And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
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I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
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In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
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Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
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No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
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Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
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Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
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She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
leading lady/man
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But being in a wheelchair doesn't stop them having fun - or falling for the leading man.
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Corbin Timbrook, a handsome leading man-type, has been tending Downtown's best bar for three years now.
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Davis became a genius by turning bit actors into leading men.
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Oh, some one always asks who my favorite leading lady was or who was the best kisser.
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Questioner2 Is your decision to take a year off anything to do with the rumours about Jeff and his present leading lady?
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The initial structure of the show had kind of a leading man figure: John Kelly.
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They came at full speed, the leading man aiming to Sharpe's left, the other pulling to his right.
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Tuesday night's opening had to be cancelled and on Wednesday night the leading lady was ill.
low man on the totem pole
man of the cloth
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For a man of the cloth to spend so much of his time there suggested all manner of things.
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He was in every sense a man of the cloth .
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Smith and fellow men of the cloth conducted nocturnal sorties, gathering ammunition against the wicked.
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Surely a man of the cloth wouldn't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden.
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Their seduction had long been used on men of the cloth , often with rewarding results for the cook.
man/woman of many parts
man/woman of substance
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Aristeides represented the land forces, the men of substance , who provided their own armour and were not paid.
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But Miss Close's father was a man of substance , and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum.
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He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.
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He was a man of substance .
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His will, executed on 12 December 1760, shows him to have been a man of substance .
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I am not worried about the men of substance .
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I was a man of substance now, I had arrived.
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The lowest officials on the administrative tier were the village headmen, who were normally men of substance .
marked man/woman
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But Chennault was a marked man.
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Ever since his luncheon with Katherine Fisher, Jim had felt like a marked man whenever he was in the office complex.
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From that time he was dedicated, a marked man.
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He thus became a marked man.
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In his defence, Souness believes his no-nonsense approach has made him a marked man.
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It was well known that the younger Beaumont twin was a marked man.
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Mark Gallagher - marked man today Much ado about nothing!
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Without Young, forward Andy Poppink is a marked man.
matchstick men/figures
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More like troubled at mill Salford says there's more to its patron saint than pictures of matchstick men.
not just any (old) man/woman/job etc
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And a T'ang is not just any man.
one man's meat is another man's poison
our fellow man/men
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It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men.
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That is, better an unattainable ideal than a limited attainable goal when it comes to the welfare of our fellow men.
professional person/man/woman etc
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A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.
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About 80 percent of its clients are business and professional women.
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As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
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Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
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Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
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The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
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There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
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These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
separate the men from the boys
straw man
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And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.
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The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.
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The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.
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Whether Lorenz's critics were firing a straw man is unimportant.
take your medicine (like a man)
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Come on, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, take your medicine .
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Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing.
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He and his grandpa took their medicine together, at the same time.
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He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine .
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He shut his eyes, held his nose like a kid about to take his medicine , and started to drink.
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His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine , and he travels too much.
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Like some one recovering from the flu, she quit taking her medicine as soon as she felt better.
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Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind, she again stopped taking her medicine .
that's life/men/politics etc (for you)
the Grand Old Man of sth
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That is, apart from the grand old man of Les Bleus.
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What would the grand old man of travel have made of the thirty nine days scheduled for the 1991 world tour?
the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
the man/woman in the street
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The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.
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This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street .
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But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
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He picked up the women in the street .
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Like most of the women in the street , Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.
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One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
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That's what the man in the street wants.
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The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street .
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Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street .
the odd man/one out
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I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
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And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
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At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
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He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
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Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
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Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
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Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
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Why is it always the odd man out?
the poor man's sb
the poor man's sth
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No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.
the thinking man's/woman's etc sth
the woman/man/girl etc in your life
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He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
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Michael: Who are the men in your life ?
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My doctor is the man in my life .
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Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life .
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Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives .
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To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives .
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Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
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Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
woman/man etc of independent means
woman/man with a mission
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A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith.
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How can a 77-year-old man with a mission admit that he was wrong all along?
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Powered by a man with a mission .
young lady/man
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Now, you listen to me, young man!
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He certainly got his money's worth, that young man.
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He was a very beautiful young man, a bit like a girl, perhaps - but still very good-looking.
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If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon.
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Their captors are equally enthralled with the two young men.
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This is a young man's play, and it feels like one.
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This social and hormonal dilemma of young men was illuminated by a series of experiments with Rhesus monkeys in Atlanta.
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Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A real man wouldn't be scared of commitment.
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Any other soldier would have told him to pull himself together and be a man .
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Are you man enough to admit that you've been lying?
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Ask the men to meet here at 11:00 for a briefing.
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Bush was a Yale man .
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He's a meat-and-potatoes man .
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He had a very successful business and died a rich man .
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Hey, what's happening, man ?
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If I were a gambling man , I'd put money on the Saints.
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In an effort to prove his manhood he had taken to stealing cars and drinking alcohol.
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Jericho is the oldest continuously inhabited city known to man .
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Many of the men said they would vote for the strike.
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Tania was at the party with her new man .
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The Dutch reclamation of their land is a classic case of man 's struggle against nature.
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The gas man came by to read the meter.
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The grandeur of the mountains is a constant reminder of man 's insignificance.
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You never see Fuller Brush men any more.
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You wouldn't understand how she feels -- you're a man !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I was getting ready to leave when a man opened the door.
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If men alone had the vote, President Bob Dole would now be running for re-election.
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It was a tall man with an aquiline nose and thick dark hair.
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Prescriptions for men cost more than for women aged between 25 and 84 years.
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There the man held Sammler against the wall with his forearm.
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They want to know, Who is this man ?
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Two men so different in appearance and manner, yet both prepared to sacrifice her feelings on the altar of their ambition.
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When I arrived at the shelter, I found the right man .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
barricade
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In the early morning of May 18, police manning barricades were replaced by army paratroopers who opened fire with machine guns.
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But no one is likely to man the barricades on our ancient behalf.
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They manned the barricades - did a good job, but survival was down to luck at times.
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For some of those manning the barricades in Quebec, this is irrelevant.
mission
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The Nova will have unmanned launches next year followed by a manned mission , which Bennett himself wants to pilot.
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For manned lunar-landing missions , an even larger booster was required.
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In all there were eleven manned Apollo missions , of which nine flew to the Moon.
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Further, no nation on Earth presently has the ability to launch manned lunar missions .
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At that stage the engines were being developed with a manned Mrs mission in mind.
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By this stage, the groundwork necessary for manned missions has been accomplished.
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It is now far more acceptable to start talking about a manned mission to Mars.
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Manned visits to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos often figure as parts of manned missions to the surface of Mars.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
England expects that every man will do his duty
Invisible Man
Man proposes, God disposes
Mondeo man
The Invisible Man
a changed man/woman
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Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
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My father came back from the war a changed man.
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She returned from her travel a changed woman.
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But when he came home he was a changed man.
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He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
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He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
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He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
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Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
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Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
a fine figure of a man/woman
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Vellios was a fine figure of a man.
a fine figure of a man/woman
a fine man/woman etc
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And he was a fine man, a good man.
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Aye, a fine man, Elizabeth thought admiringly.
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Ben's a fine man, but he does talk so much.
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He was a fine man, Con Meredith-Lee.
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I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio.
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Really sad case, that, because he'd been a fine man.
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She was a fine woman, unspoilt by childbirth, her body hardened by fieldwork.
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You're a fine woman when you're roused, my darling.
a man/woman etc after my own heart
a man/woman etc of few words
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Bill Templeman was a man of few words .
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Blitherdick, usually a man of few words , had become lachrymose about Blenkinsop's enjoyment of a good wine.
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He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words .
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He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures.
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He was a man of few words in any case, Maggie noted.
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I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career.
as the next man/person
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After a while, everybody will have the technology to make a movie look as cool as the next person.
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All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person!
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Now Glover himself was as female as the next man, keeping an eagle eye on boys.
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She figured the guys could see for themselves then that he could be as vulnerable as the next man.
be a man/woman of the world
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Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
be all things to all men/people
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I finally realized I could not be all things to all people.
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Andrea felt tremendous pressure to succeed, to continue to be all things to all people.
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Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.
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For years, the stores had managed to be all things to all people.
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In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people.
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It is all things to all men ... and this is perhaps its number one axiom.
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No-one is all things to all people, and Anthea is no exception.
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Politicians have to be all things to all people.
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The single truck was all things to all men and women.
be your own man/woman
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She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.
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Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
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Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.
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At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.
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But Erlich was his own man.
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He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.
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He was his own man, after all.
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Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
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Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.
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The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.
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You can be your own man.
be/feel like a new man/woman
grown man/woman
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Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
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Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
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He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
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She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
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And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
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I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
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In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
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Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
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No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
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Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
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Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
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She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
leading lady/man
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But being in a wheelchair doesn't stop them having fun - or falling for the leading man.
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Corbin Timbrook, a handsome leading man-type, has been tending Downtown's best bar for three years now.
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Davis became a genius by turning bit actors into leading men.
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Oh, some one always asks who my favorite leading lady was or who was the best kisser.
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Questioner2 Is your decision to take a year off anything to do with the rumours about Jeff and his present leading lady?
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The initial structure of the show had kind of a leading man figure: John Kelly.
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They came at full speed, the leading man aiming to Sharpe's left, the other pulling to his right.
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Tuesday night's opening had to be cancelled and on Wednesday night the leading lady was ill.
low man on the totem pole
man of the cloth
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For a man of the cloth to spend so much of his time there suggested all manner of things.
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He was in every sense a man of the cloth .
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Smith and fellow men of the cloth conducted nocturnal sorties, gathering ammunition against the wicked.
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Surely a man of the cloth wouldn't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden.
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Their seduction had long been used on men of the cloth , often with rewarding results for the cook.
man/woman of many parts
man/woman of substance
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Aristeides represented the land forces, the men of substance , who provided their own armour and were not paid.
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But Miss Close's father was a man of substance , and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum.
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He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.
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He was a man of substance .
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His will, executed on 12 December 1760, shows him to have been a man of substance .
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I am not worried about the men of substance .
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I was a man of substance now, I had arrived.
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The lowest officials on the administrative tier were the village headmen, who were normally men of substance .
marked man/woman
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But Chennault was a marked man.
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Ever since his luncheon with Katherine Fisher, Jim had felt like a marked man whenever he was in the office complex.
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From that time he was dedicated, a marked man.
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He thus became a marked man.
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In his defence, Souness believes his no-nonsense approach has made him a marked man.
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It was well known that the younger Beaumont twin was a marked man.
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Mark Gallagher - marked man today Much ado about nothing!
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Without Young, forward Andy Poppink is a marked man.
matchstick men/figures
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More like troubled at mill Salford says there's more to its patron saint than pictures of matchstick men.
not just any (old) man/woman/job etc
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And a T'ang is not just any man.
one man's meat is another man's poison
our fellow man/men
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It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men.
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That is, better an unattainable ideal than a limited attainable goal when it comes to the welfare of our fellow men.
professional person/man/woman etc
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A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.
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About 80 percent of its clients are business and professional women.
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As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
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Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
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Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
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The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
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There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
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These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
straw man
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And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.
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The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.
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The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.
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Whether Lorenz's critics were firing a straw man is unimportant.
take your medicine (like a man)
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Come on, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, take your medicine .
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Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing.
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He and his grandpa took their medicine together, at the same time.
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He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine .
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He shut his eyes, held his nose like a kid about to take his medicine , and started to drink.
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His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine , and he travels too much.
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Like some one recovering from the flu, she quit taking her medicine as soon as she felt better.
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Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind, she again stopped taking her medicine .
that's life/men/politics etc (for you)
the Grand Old Man of sth
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That is, apart from the grand old man of Les Bleus.
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What would the grand old man of travel have made of the thirty nine days scheduled for the 1991 world tour?
the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo
the man/woman in the street
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The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.
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This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street .
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But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
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He picked up the women in the street .
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Like most of the women in the street , Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.
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One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
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That's what the man in the street wants.
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The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street .
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Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street .
the odd man/one out
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I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
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And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
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At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
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He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
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Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
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Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
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Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
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Why is it always the odd man out?
the poor man's sb
the poor man's sth
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No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.
the thinking man's/woman's etc sth
the woman/man/girl etc in your life
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He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
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Michael: Who are the men in your life ?
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My doctor is the man in my life .
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Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life .
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Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives .
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To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives .
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Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
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Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
woman/man etc of independent means
woman/man with a mission
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A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith.
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How can a 77-year-old man with a mission admit that he was wrong all along?
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Powered by a man with a mission .
young lady/man
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Now, you listen to me, young man!
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He certainly got his money's worth, that young man.
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He was a very beautiful young man, a bit like a girl, perhaps - but still very good-looking.
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If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon.
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Their captors are equally enthralled with the two young men.
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This is a young man's play, and it feels like one.
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This social and hormonal dilemma of young men was illuminated by a series of experiments with Rhesus monkeys in Atlanta.
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Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The booths are manned by customs officials.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In the early morning of May 18, police manning barricades were replaced by army paratroopers who opened fire with machine guns.
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It's no wonder the counter isn't manned half the time.
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On the Bulevard Republicii there are a number of road- blocks, formerly manned by militias and now by troops.
III. interjection
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Man , your refrigerator makes a lot of noise.