noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mud pie
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
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What this really means, of course, is still as clear as mud .
deep
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It was terrible weather, stormy and wet, with deep mud in the streets.
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But Antley let his horse settle in third and wait for the leaders to tire in the deep mud .
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Outside, the rain Courses in cart-ruts down the deep mud lane.
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The upper path was deep in mud: the lower one was now a stream.
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The very sturdy rootstock is embedded deep in the mud .
soft
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The man spun round so swiftly that George was taken aback and tripped, falling on to the soft mud .
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The soft new mud automatically eliminated the need for plowing and fertilization.
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It is also a very useful rig for fishing over soft mud and weed.
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They followed the stream, their feet quiet on the soft mud , the boot soles leaving patterns in damp places.
thick
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Heavy rain clouds gathered and the roads next morning were clogged with thick , heavy mud .
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She landed flat on her face in thick mud .
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Some are very inaccessible and he has to wade through thick mud to get at them.
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The fallen clothes were as difficult to wade through as thick mud .
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Hundreds of fans at the Reading Rock Festival were stuck with their cars and vans in thick mud last night.
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There was thick mud underfoot; it stuck to the soles of her shoes.
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As he stumbled around the far side of the breakwater, the hard sand was replaced by thick mud .
■ NOUN
brick
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However, even disintegrated mud brick can help to assess rebuilding phases in Penivian villages or Near Eastern tells.
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Even today many members of these tribes live in multi-occupation dwellings made from sun-dried mud bricks known as adobe.
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Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand.
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The ground was covered with crumbling mud bricks , heaps of cracked white stone.
flat
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Sea-birds, like snowflakes, turned lazily far out over the mud flats ....
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It is one of merged meadowlands ending in the great saltings and mud flats and tidal pools near the restless sea.
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In some areas, such as a Donna Nook and Theddlethorpe, the sand and mud flats are incredibly vast.
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It is, in fact a large, dusty mud flat .
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Wading birds collect great quantities of small molluscs from sandbanks and mud flats when the tide retreats.
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Cardiff was, of course, built on mud flats , and nature takes a long time to change.
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If the mud flats freeze over, it is impossible for them to find sufficient food.
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At Grangemouth docks were dug out of the mud flats .
hut
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To our western eyes as he stood in his raggy, holed clothes in front of his mud hut he would appear very poor.
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Cataracts launched them downriver before they had time to think; waves like mud huts threw them eight feet into the air.
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In a mud hut on an endless plain, she sorted through the bones of unrecognizable animals.
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Its architecture consists of round, thatched mud huts set off by straw fences.
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The geography of evil: tunnels and bamboo thickets and mud huts and graves.
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The mud hut that calls itself a hospital contains nothing but flies.
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Kamilo said her mud hut had been entered just a few days earlier by thieves who stole her only bedsheet.
slide
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The largest of them, Rocinha, somehow houses 60,000 people in tiny shacks that are regularly engulfed in mud slides .
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Have you ever seen mud slide ?
wall
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It was cold, too, an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall .
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This study should generate precise data about the thermal characteristics of mud walls .
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They had strengthened structurally weak areas around doors and windows with layers of fired bricks set into the mud walls .
■ VERB
build
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The evidence suggests that almost all the village houses in earlier days were built of dried mud with thatched roofs.
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She and her husband and six children are struggling to build a one-room mud hut on the grounds of the camp.
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In common with other members of the swallow family, house martins build elaborate mud nests precariously slung beneath the eaves of a house.
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Flamingos build nest mounds of mud and lay but one egg.
bury
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Once more the three men buried themselves in the mud and waited until another passing cloud allowed them to advance a few more yards.
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His feet were bare: his trainers were still buried in the mud .
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Usually the plant has its rootstock deeply buried in the mud or tank medium.
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They can bury themselves in mud during droughts and live in a cocoon made out of mucus from their skin.
cake
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The hand was caked in mud , the fingers hooked into a claw.
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The left side of her face is caked with bloodied mud .
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She took the can in her gloved hand, which was caked in black mud .
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At noon, Ron Malcolm appeared at the door, wearing boots caked with dried mud and a red baseball cap.
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His boots were still caked with mud , but they could wait.
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Bodies caked in mud , the rescuers gather for a debriefing session; up sound.
cover
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Movie sniper Jude Law and Rachel Weisz are covered in mud but still have their sights set on desire.
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Anne was not hurt, but her hands, face and overcoat were covered with mud .
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She was soaked and covered in mud , her dress torn in several places.
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He was sitting in a new white Jensen sports car that was covered in mud , with a sensational blonde, sensational.
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When everywhere and everything seems covered in mud - especially your horse - it's hard to keep up appearances.
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He too was covered in mud and green dirt, but the features that they almost concealed were boyishly pleasant.
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As little girls returned covered in dust and mud a parental boycott developed.
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The ground was covered with crumbling mud bricks, heaps of cracked white stone.
drag
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Killion and Richards, half undressed and filthy, were carrying Church; his feet were dragging in the mud .
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He tried to drag himself through the mud but he only sank more deeply into it.
dry
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Anaximenes noticed that when river-beds dry up, the mud cracks.
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They are about as strong as dried clods of mud .
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A list of names and numbers was painted on a board, nailed into the dried mud of the hut.
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Wall of dried mud , a roof of interlaced palm leaves and the only entrance a low door...
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Beam of light on my fingers, white with dried mud .
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Jeri and I thrashed ahead, following subsidiary ruts in the dried mud , and then tire marks in the grass.
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At noon, Ron Malcolm appeared at the door, wearing boots caked with dried mud and a red baseball cap.
fill
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At one time, the space between the timbers would have been filled with mud and straw.
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Now imagine the room is filled with mud .
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But as ships have become larger and the rivers have filled with mud and silt, their functions as ports have declined.
lie
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In the police cells the Masai warrior, Tepilit, lies on the mud floor.
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Four I-beams lay criss-crossed in the mud .
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For Fedorov was still supposed to believe him to be lying in the mud at the bottom of the Danube.
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We bailed out, they took off, and I was lying in the mud .
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He looked down and saw his colleague still lying in the mud , not daring to move.
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He just lay silent in the mud and glared at Mr Linley.
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Yes, there was certainly a figure lying in the mud .
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But a piece of bread lying in almost liquid mud will demand a more prolonged cleaning process.
live
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The pharaohs lived in mud palaces but were buried in monumental stone edifices.
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They lived in mud houses without electricity or water, revelling in the glory of the mission.
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Some bacteria that live in mud on Earth use chains of magnetite as tiny compasses to determine which way is up.
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Tubifex are very thin, long red aquatic larvae which live in the mud of slow flowing rivers and ponds.
scrape
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Teresa scraped the mud off her boots, then stepped out of them.
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Finally I took a flat rock and got down on all fours and scraped the mud off each wheel.
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She scraped the mud away and revealed a piece of scrimshaw.
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Then I scraped the mud off again, and we drove another revolution.
stand
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Implexion had stood in the mud of the canyon, the pathetic tents being demolished around him by his militia.
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But he saw her standing in the mud , feet apart, rope in hand.
stick
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If he'd gone right down, he'd have stuck in the mud , and been out of the tide.
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I was stuck in the mud , and so was every-body else, and we were trying to get out.
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One day while sailing down the Mississippi the Diamond Joe became stuck in mud .
turn
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But then it turned to mud - horrible stuff that sucked at my feet, and stank.
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Its entire purpose is somehow to turn mud into a cement-like material - a material with a multi-national answer to housing problems.
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The rain had also turned the city to mud , not the usual red mud but a curious purple shade.
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Roads were turned to mud by days of rain and Fiorio had the additional hardship of a bubbling radiator to contend with.
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The rain which would turn their campground to mud , and fill the cisterns of Famagusta.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as clear as mud
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Joe's directions are as clear as mud.
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What this really means, of course, is still as clear as mud.
drag sb's name through the mud
sb's name is mud
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a mud hut
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Hayley scraped the dried mud off her boots.
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Remove mud from your bike by spraying with a hose.
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Their expensive riding jackets were covered in mud .
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There's mud all over the carpet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But he saw her standing in the mud , feet apart, rope in hand.
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Cultivation: A medium containing plenty of mud or clay or detritus is essential.
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Flora and I were walking through the palm grove, on mud paths between tiny squares of pale green barley.
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He swung his legs over the fence, but his right boot got caught and he tumbled into the mud .
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I felt the mud under my hands, then quickly took a pinch into my mouth.
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The crumbled porcelain of a third lay embedded like fossilized prehistoric remains long entombed in silt and mud .
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The posies of corn had been trampled in the mud .
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The tide was making, although the boats still rested on the mud .