noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
armed men
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The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport.
enlisted men
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officers and enlisted men
men's room
the bin men (= the people who take your rubbish away )
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Which day do the bin men come?
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
women/men/residents etc only
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The car park is for staff only.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Until 1989, most cases where white gay men , but the majority are now black heterosexual men.
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C., to beg forgiveness for the way black men had mistreated their women and neglected their families.
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Seventy-six black men and women had been lynched.
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More than a dozen young black men have been killed by Miami police within recent months.
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Police reported yesterday that four black men were stabbed and hacked to death in a battle in Magoda township.
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You see gentle black men shining shoes.
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Three bored black men sit in the back of a mini-van.
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How else would we account for black men being disproportionately arrested for robbery and murder?
gay
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In the 1970s, five thousand gay men moved to San Francisco each year.
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Among younger gay men , trends may become clearer at year-end.
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There were those - particularly gay men - who argued that there was no need for any gay politics at all.
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In study after study, openly gay men reported being less safe than those who are closeted, conflicted, or bisexual.
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These modest programmes were basically interviews in which gay men and lesbians discussed their lives and experiences.
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Many gay men are understandably loath to take a lesson in prevention from heterosexuals, but that lesson stands none the less.
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The recent political activities of Haringey Black Action has succeeded in raising the profile of Black lesbians and gay men .
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Is it responsible to be actively encouraging gay men to use a product that is untested?
old
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Hedgehogs had a lot more fleas than old men .
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The effect was unnerving, and at first I thought the old men would come to blows.
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The older men in the room are fascinated by Crilly.
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No, the old men were the real radicals, the ones who corrupted us all.
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Later as weapons and uniforms became available and with the help of the older men , the unit began to take shape.
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In basketball, you can have good teams consisting of high school kids, old men and women of all ages.
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Primarily because of their greater experience of disability, the needs of older women are often greater than those of older men .
other
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But now we can it last become what we really are and that means we shall become different from other men .
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Police believe at least four other men were involved.
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She had placed Donna next to Matthew Prescott, while Alex was seated beside one of the other men .
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When they began to investigate the tiny houses, they found other bodies: men , women, children ....
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Fei Yen took her drink and seated herself beside her husband, facing the other men .
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His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men .
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That lot only know how to squander what other men have earned.
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Have you aided other men in their perverted follies?
white
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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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And on the floor, still as far from white men as the limitless continent they once dreamed of, he died.
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The voice says two big white men have got out wearing suede coats.
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For 20 years, it focused exclusively on white men .
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Sometimes the white men were interested in taking care of the land.
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It's not very often that you get to see dozens of white men dressed up like pimps.
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By far the rudest electors, in my canvassing experience, are old, white , working-class men .
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Little wonder that Sarri Fong was frightened: hiS encounters with white men had been anything but cordial.
young
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For some reason, Sophie was plainly being pursued by a number of young men .
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Mr Alsop generally wore a velvet smoking jacket to dinner; the young men wore black tie.
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We had ten brave young men with us.
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The younger men were cynically attentive, petting their carefully trimmed beards inspired by Edison Banks.
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A bank of young men who meant nothing to me.
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Two young men , aged 18 and 27, were wounded.
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Today staff have been preparing to welcome 2 young men whom they thought they might never see again.
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The young men were happy, but a little abashed by all the magnificence.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
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.
men in (grey) suits
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An underground company that isn't dominated by the grey men in suits.
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And so did the other half-dozen men in suits standing around, fingering the silky negligees.
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Armies of worried men in suits stormed off the Lexington Avenue subway line and marched down the crooked pavements.
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For the rest, we saw only tyrants, technology and men in suits.
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Looking out, she saw men in suits getting into the medium-sized cars.
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Nor was she forced out by the men in grey suits - though intrigue played a major role.
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Then, at lunchtime, Mrs Thatcher met a group of the so-called men in grey suits.
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When he asked for Hugh Sixsmith at the desk, two men in suits climbed quickly from their chairs.
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.
separate the men from the boys
that's life/men/politics etc (for you)
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among single men , 59 percent buy into the myth and 68 percent of all married men believe it to be true.
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For the first time in the day he heard men laugh freely.
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Like men , we wire the lamps and repair the deck.
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Now she would just have to hope she did not meet any men on the way to the caves.
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Prices were falling and far-sighted men were looking for something else to cultivate.
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Some jittering movement among the men , non-believers finding faith in fear.
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Three of my men entered the woods, and we heard an ex-tremely loud explosion.