noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dispel...myth
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We want to dispel the myth that you cannot eat well in Britain.
myths and legends
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I read and reread the Greek myths and legends.
shatter a myth (= show that an idea was completely wrong )
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Economic studies have shattered the myth that population growth is bad for a nation’s economy.
urban myth
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ancient
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Apples crop up everywhere from the dinner table to our most ancient myths and legends.
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The theme is usually an ancient myth , belonging to the city or family to which the victor has brought new glory.
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Balor An ancient Celtic myth explained the puzzle of creation through the story of Balor.
great
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One of the greatest myths in modern politics is that campaigns are too expensive.
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There are a great number of myths that constantly need to be laid about school dinners.
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In all great art, myth is reborn.
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Many tales have been handed down and a great number of myths have been created around his memory.
national
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It was an understandable choice in an age of burgeoning national myths .
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Along with the national myth comes a rich tradition of hagiography.
old
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Killing off old information or myths is extremely difficult.
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The Biblical story does more than turn the older myth on its head.
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Lind has written a polemic, provocative and engaging and infuriating to read, and useful when it blows up old myths .
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Yet fiercely we cling to old myths that give comfort-justice is out there.
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Yet the old myth of the entrepreneurial hero remains powerful.
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Such treatment of an old myth is typical not only of Pindar but of his time.
pagan
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When missionaries first reached Santa's native Lapland, they found a thriving pagan myth of reindeer flight.
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Rape is a staple in pagan myth , and killing still more commonplace.
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Stone monuments from tenth and eleventh century Northumbria sometimes contain scenes from pagan myth and legend.
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Even in translation, strange to say, pagan myth is little-read today.
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Primitive and Pagan myth comprise the East and West winds of mythology.
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We have every reason to be grateful for both sorts, as well as for pagan and primitive myth .
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This, together with the re-emergence of pagan myth in general, fostered the full sunshine of the High Renaissance.
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Namely, the inevitable decline of pagan myth .
popular
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Contrary to popular myth Darwin was not thunderstruck by the theory of evolution during his voyage on the Beagle.
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In addition, peo-ple have new questions, arising as often from media reports of scientific studies as from popular myth .
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Contrary to popular myth , women have gained very little over the last ten years-and lost a lot.
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Other popular myths also fail to withstand close scrutiny.
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In fact, the Great and Good are not nearly as changed as popular myth would have it.
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Contrary to the popular myth , Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics.
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One popular myth needs, perhaps, to be dispelled at this stage.
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Taxing poverty Popular myth has it that poor peasants and casual workers in the Third World do not pay tax.
urban
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Or is he just an urban myth ?
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He lists a handful of false virus alerts and urban myths .
■ NOUN
creation
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What I have told you is a 50-year-old version of the creation myth .
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Now it had disappeared, even as Mary's Diseased Creation myth had prophesied.
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The laibon kicks off with a creation myth .
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All he knew of the early Daurog myth was the creation myth.
■ VERB
based
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Current test methods for accessing Average Seek Times are based on several myths .
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The pain of childbirth, she asserts, is based on male myths .
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This perception was partly based on myth .
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It is more likely that the cosmogonic myths are the foundation on which an anthropological perspective was based .
believe
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I should like the Minister to tell us whether he believes the myth about privatising the coal industry.
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Men who make a living working with their hands tend to believe the myth more than men with desk jobs.
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They believed in the myth and Diana could not bring herself to tell them the awful truth.
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But families believe in their myths for reasons more compelling than respect for the versatility of metaphor.
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And then people will believe the myth of Bartley, which was begotten by the myth of Jonah.
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People not only believed in myth , they lived by it.
create
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He breaks out of the group's culture and psychology by creating a myth .
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Every man, woman, and child creates myth / truth to a degree.
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It helps nobody if a law is seen to create myths - Contract Journal.
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But in his conclusions he manages only to create a new myth , which isn't useful at all.
dispel
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The intensive study of demographic records through the technique of family reconstitution has dispelled many myths .
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It further calls for discussion within the trade union movement on this question, with a view to dispelling the myths that surround homosexuality.
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To dispel another myth: we have not entirely evolved from this animal ability to use our senses for survival.
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In this respect there is sometimes a need to dispel some of the myths which surround alcohol.
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It aims at dispelling the myths about old age and at building a network of associations concerned with the issues of aging.
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Direct contact helps dispel myths and dissolves stereotypes.
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Before proceeding further it would perhaps be as well to dispel one or two myths .
explode
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First, they explode various current myths .
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The report explodes the myth that men are the bed-hopping rogues while the little woman waits at home.
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This series sets out to explode the myth that some are impossible to keep.
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At last, I thought, some one is willing to explode the myth that thin equals sexy!
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It explodes the myth prevalent among pupils at school that history graduates mainly become history teachers.
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It is therefore time to explode another myth .
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Unusual position though it is, let me defend Ratner by exploding a couple of myths .
perpetuate
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Let's set the record straight and stop perpetuating this myth .
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To say that wine-speak is an obfuscation is at best perpetuating one of many myths about wine.
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Without statistics to prove the theories daft, the opportunity remains to rely on the powers of suggestion to perpetuate the myth .
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If he includes other people's slivers, he may well perpetuate damaging myths about that person.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
explode the myth
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The report explodes the myth that pollution is only a problem for rich countries.
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At last, I thought, some one is willing to explode the myth that thin equals sexy!
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It explodes the myth prevalent among pupils at school that history graduates mainly become history teachers.
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The report explodes the myth that men are the bed-hopping rogues while the little woman waits at home.
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This series sets out to explode the myth that some are impossible to keep.
nail a lie/myth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a ballet based on a Greek myth
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It's just a myth that divorced dads don't care about their kids.
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It is a myth that battered women deserve or want to be beaten.
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Opera combines myth , music, and drama.
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The myth tells of how the gods sent fire to the earth in flashes of lightning.
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The first myth about motherhood is that new mothers instantly fall in love with their babies.
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The heroes of myth all had some point of weakness.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And among all such positive forces, living myth stands first.
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Before proceeding further it would perhaps be as well to dispel one or two myths.
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But myths, folk tales, legends and, yes, religious stories are different.
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But her scenarios are without irony, studies of skin as flesh rather than repositories of myth and moral fable.
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However, neither myth nor truth stands alone in the objective sense.
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Instead, he has ambitiously attempted an updating of the Biblical myths that have always informed the act of literary creation.
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Some have concluded that the current-account deficit is a myth .
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This myth , it is apparent, exists in two aspects.