I. number
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fine one to talk (= you are criticizing someone for something you do yourself )
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You’re a fine one to talk .
a million-to-one chance/a one in a million chance (= when something is extremely unlikely )
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It must have been a million-to-one chance that we’d meet.
a one in three/four/ten etc chance (= used to say how likely something is )
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People in their 30s have a one in 3,000 chance of getting the disease.
a one/two/three etc minute sth
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a ten minute bus ride
a two-thirds/2:1/three to one etc majority
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A two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress is needed to overturn a presidential veto.
another one
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Oh look, there’s another one of those birds.
a/one quarter (of sth)
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a quarter of a mile
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roughly one quarter of the city’s population
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It’s about a page and a quarter.
at least one occasion (= once, and probably more than once )
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On at least one occasion he was arrested for robbery.
at one point (= at a time in the past )
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At one point I was thinking of studying physics.
at one pole/at opposite poles
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We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other.
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Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles think in two completely different ways on this issue.
at one stage (= at a time in the past )
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At one stage I had to tell him to calm down.
at/in one go
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Ruby blew out all her candles at one go.
be a great one for doing sth
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She’s a great one for telling stories about her schooldays.
be back to/at square one
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The police are now back at square one in their investigation.
be ranked fourth/number one etc
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Agassi was at that time ranked sixth in the world.
Day One Christian Ministries
deaf in one ear
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The illness left her deaf in one ear.
deep one
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Henry has always been a deep one . He keeps his views to himself.
divide one number by another
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You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
each and every one of
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These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
each one
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There are 250 blocks of stone, and each one weighs a ton.
fire/bounce ideas off one another (= discuss each other’s ideas and think of good new ones )
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Our regular meetings are opportunities to fire ideas off each other.
from one ... to another
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She spends the day rushing from one meeting to another.
go back to square one (= used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time )
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Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
go from one extreme to the other (= change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite )
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Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other .
good for one month/a year etc
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Your passport is good for another three years.
got here in one piece
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Ring Mum and let her know we got here in one piece .
I owe you one (= used to thank someone who has helped you, and to say that you are willing to help them in the future )
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Thanks a lot for being so understanding about all this – I owe you one !
in one gulp/at a gulp
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Charlie drank the whisky in one gulp.
last but one/two etc (= last except for one other, two others etc )
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on the last but one day of his trial
look out for yourself/number one (= think only of the advantages you can get for yourself )
loved one
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Many people feel guilty after the death of a loved one .
more than one occasion (= more than once )
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She stayed out all night on more than one occasion.
multiply one number by another
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What happens if you multiply a postive number by a negative number?
neither one
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We asked both John and Jerry, but neither one could offer a satisfactory explanation.
never for one moment (= used to emphasize that you never thought something )
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She had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her.
no one
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No one likes being criticized.
nothing/no one/nowhere in particular
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‘What did you want?’ ‘Oh, nothing in particular.’
nought point one/two/three etc (= 0.1, 0.2 etc )
number one
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The University of Maine has the number one hockey team in the country.
number one
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Until his marriage, his job was number one in his life.
of one sort or another (= of various different sorts )
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Quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another.
on one condition (= only if one particular thing is agreed to )
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You can go, but only on one condition - you have to be back by eleven.
one another
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Liz and I have known one another for years.
one bright spot
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The computer industry is the one bright spot in the economy at the moment.
One false move
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One false move and you’re dead.
one final/last point
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There is one final point I would like to make.
one in a million
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He’s so generous. He’s one in a million .
one of the boys (= not anyone special, but liked by other men )
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He considers himself just one of the boys .
one of the lads (= a member of your group of friends )
One of the nice things about
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One of the nice things about Christmas is having all the family together.
one of the perks
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I only eat here because it’s free – one of the perks of the job.
One Parent Families/Gingerbread
one sandwich short of a picnic
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He’s one sandwich short of a picnic .
one side
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A path leads down one side of the garden to a paved area.
one too many (= one more than is acceptable, needed etc )
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One job loss is one too many .
one/a few etc extra
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I got a few extra in case anyone else decides to come.
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I’ll be making $400 extra a month.
one/two etc and a half
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‘How old is she?’ ‘Five and a half.’
part one/two/three etc
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The questionnaire is in two parts: part one asks for your personal details and part two asks for your comments on the course.
pass sth from one generation to the next
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Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
pop you one
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If you say that again, I’ll pop you one .
pull a fast one (= deceive you )
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He was trying to pull a fast one when he told you he’d paid.
sb will never know/no one will ever know
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Just take it. No one will ever know.
sb's only/one hope
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My only hope is that someone may have handed in the keys to the police.
sb’s number one fan
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She told Dave that she was his number one fan.
sth is one of life’s (little) mysteries (= it is something that you will never understand – used humorously )
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Where socks disappear to after they’ve been washed is one of life’s little mysteries.
still in one piece
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Cheer up. At least you’re still in one piece .
subtract one number from another
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Subtract this number from the total.
ten to five/twenty to one etc (= ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour )
that’s a new one on me spoken (= used to say that you have never heard something before )
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‘The office is going to be closed for six weeks this summer.’ ‘Really? That’s a new one on me.’
the lucky ones (= lucky people, especially when compared to others who suffered )
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They considered themselves the lucky ones because they escaped with only minor injuries.
the number one suspect (= the main suspect )
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I was the one who found her. And that makes me the number one suspect for her murder.
the only one
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I was the only one who disagreed.
the other one
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One man was arrested, but the other one got away.
the other ones
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I chose this coat in the end because the other ones were all too expensive.
the top/main/number one priority
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Controlling spending is his top priority.
took one look
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I took one look at the coat and decided it wasn’t worth £50.
whichever one
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‘Do you want tea or coffee?’ ‘I don’t mind – whichever one you’re making.’
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(all) rolled into one
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The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
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For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
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In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
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It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
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Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
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Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
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She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
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So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
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They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
(in) one way or another/one way or the other
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One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
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As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
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But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
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In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
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In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
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In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
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Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
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My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
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Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
(one) for luck
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You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck .
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An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
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By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
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Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
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I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
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Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
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Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck .
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One for luck , and farewell.
Formula One/Two/Three etc
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And I don't think many people appreciate the physical demands of actually driving a Formula One car, especially through corners.
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If the Formula One circus is so bothered about avoiding accidents, why not run the entire race behind the safety car?
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It's almost embarrassing the way his Oxfordshire-based team have dominated Formula One this season.
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Like its Formula Two counterpart it was removed from the international calendar at the end of 1984.
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She knew that in between Formula One obligations he had, amazingly, managed to keep his construction interests afloat.
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Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
I'll tell you something/one thing/another thing
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Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
I've heard that one before
I've only got one pair of hands
I/you can count sb/sth on (the fingers of) one hand
a/one bit at a time
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The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
a/one hell of a sth
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It was one hell of a party.
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Ray's a hell of a salesman.
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She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
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But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
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DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
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It's a hell of a game.
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It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
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It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
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That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
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They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
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We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
a/one hundred percent
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I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
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I agree with you a hundred percent.
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Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
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All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
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It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
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She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
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The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
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There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
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Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
a/one hundred percent
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Absolutely I agree one hundred percent .
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All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
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It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
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No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
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She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
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The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
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There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
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Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
as one man
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The crowd rise to their feet as one man .
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The... whole North arose as one man ....
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Undaunted, Athletico played as one man .
at a/one stroke
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Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke .
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But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke .
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Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke ?
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His reputation would be lost at a stroke .
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No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke , because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
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People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
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Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke .
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The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke .
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Then, at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
at one time
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At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
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See, I can lock the doors all at one time .
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There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time .
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This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time .
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You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time .
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Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time .
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It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
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The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
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The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
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The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
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Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time .
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We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time .
at/in one sitting
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Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting .
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As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting .
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At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting .
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But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting .
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I devoured it all almost at one sitting , reading it until my eyes closed.
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I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
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It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting .
be in a minority of one
be neither one thing nor the other
be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind
be one ... short of a ...
be/keep/stay one step ahead (of sb)
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It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
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Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
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The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
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We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
can do sth with one hand (tied) behind your back
criticize/nag/hassle sb up one side and down the other
do one
for one thing
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A higher body count score, for one thing .
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He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing .
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The ex-steelworkers, for one thing , have not gone away.
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Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing , which balances out the supposed benefits.
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Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
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Well, for one thing , women have a different experience in life.
go in (at) one ear and out (at) the other
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It goes in one ear and out the other.
go one better (than sb)
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Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better .
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But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
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Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
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Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
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Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better .
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She goes one better than last year.
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The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
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They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better .
half past one/two/three etc
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At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
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At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
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At half past two this morning my wife died.
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It was half past three in the morning.
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She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
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The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
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They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
have a good one
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"I'm off to work." Alright, have a good one."
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And you have a good one.
have a one-track mind
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That guy has a one-track mind.
have had one too many
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Ron looked like he'd had one too many .
have more than one string to your bow
have one foot in the grave
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She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
have you heard the one about ...
hole in one
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Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
if ever there was one
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A crazy notion if ever there was one.
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An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
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Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
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He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
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Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
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My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
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My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
in one fell swoop
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A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
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Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
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Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
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Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
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I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
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The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
in one piece
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I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece !
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I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece .
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The china arrived all in one piece , thank God.
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Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece .
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All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece .
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All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece , go home, and get a job.
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At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
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It should fall out in one piece .
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It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
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Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece .
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The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece .
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When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
in one respect/in some respects etc
in one whack
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Steve lost $500 in one whack .
in words of one syllable
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Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
it's (just) one of those days
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"Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days ."
it's one thing to ..., (it's) another thing to ...,
it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
keep/have one eye/half an eye on sb/sth
kill two birds with one stone
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Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
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Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
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By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
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In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
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Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
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Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
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Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
leave sth aside/to one side
look out for number one
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We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
nice one!
no one in their right mind ...
not a bit/not one bit
not a/not one
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But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
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This change is not a one way process.
not believe/think/do sth for a/one moment
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His hand had not wavered for a moment .
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His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
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I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
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I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
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Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment .
not one red cent
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Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
not one/an iota
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It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota .
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There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
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We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
not think/believe etc for one minute
nothing/no one can touch sb/sth
number one/two/three etc seed
one (damn/damned) thing after another
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Just one damn thing after another.
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She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
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Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
one ... or another
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At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
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Besides, he got his point across, one way or another , and usually in Chicago style.
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It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another .
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Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another .
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Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another .
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The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
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Three, in one form or another , are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
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To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another .
one after another
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Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another .
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He's had one problem after another this year.
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As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another .
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Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another , the golden days were illumined with changing light.
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Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
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Just moments, one after another , instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
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Just one after another on the streets.
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On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
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The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another .
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This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another .
one after another/one after the other
one another
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We always call one another during the holidays.
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Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another , right down to the silver beards.
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His mum and I held one another up.
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I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
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Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another .
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They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
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This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
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Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
one for the road
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And one for the road , the last word in car hi-fi.
one good turn deserves another
one in every three/two in every hundred etc
one in the eye for sb
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It was one in the eye for the old order.
one man's meat is another man's poison
one minute ... the next (minute) ...
one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
one o'clock/two o'clock etc
one of a kind
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This Persian carpet is one of a kind .
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Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
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Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
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Since his patterns were often one of a kind , he relied little on machinery.
one on top of the other
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Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
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He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
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Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
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The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
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There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
one thing leads to another
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But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
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I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
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You can be sure one thing leads to another.
one to watch
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Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch .
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Rab figured him the one to watch .
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Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
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The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
one-all/two-all etc
one-minute/two-minute etc silence
public enemy number one
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Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
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She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
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Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
public enemy number one
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She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
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Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
pull the other one (it's got bells on)
put all your eggs in one basket
put one/sth over on sb
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They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
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Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
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Just put him over on the couch.
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They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
put/leave/set sth to one side
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Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
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She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs.
sb puts his pants on one leg at a time
seen one ... seen them all
shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc
slip one over on sb
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How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
speak with one voice
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It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
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Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
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This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
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Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
speak with one voice
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It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
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Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice , and it was loud.
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This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
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Where Clinton speaks with one voice , they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
square one
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After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
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Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
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He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
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If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
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Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
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Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
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We are back to square one.
sth is just one of those things
take/draw sb to one side
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Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
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He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
taking one thing with another
tell me another (one)
ten to one
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Ten to one Marsha will be late.
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It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
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Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
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All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
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He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
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I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
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She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
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The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
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They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
that's a good one
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My car's on fire? Boy, that's a good one!
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The idea of John getting sick, the idea of John coming down with something: that's a good one.
the last but one/the next but two etc
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 one that got away
▪
Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
there is only one thing for it
there's more than one way to skin a cat
there's one born every minute
tie one on
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Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
two heads are better than one
under the same roof/under one roof
what with one thing and another
with one accord
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Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
II. pronoun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Do you know where those bowls are?" "Which ones?"
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The houses are all pretty similar, but one is a little bigger than the others.
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They're closing this factory but building two new ones in Atlanta.
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We've been looking at houses but haven't found one we like yet.
III. determiner
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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One reason I like the house is because of the big kitchen.
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My one regret is that I never told Brad how I felt.
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My one worry is that she'll decide to leave college.
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She's one crazy lady!
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She was the one friend that I could trust.
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That's one fancy car you've got there.
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That is one cute kid!
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The one thing I don't like about my car is the colour.
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The one time I forgot my umbrella was the day it rained.
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The car belongs to one Joseph Nelson.
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Why does my card work in one cash machine and not in another?
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You're the one person I can trust.
IV. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(all) rolled into one
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The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
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For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
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In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
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It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
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Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
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Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
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She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
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So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
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They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
(in) one way or another/one way or the other
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One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
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As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
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But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
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In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
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In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
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In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
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Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
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My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
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Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
(one) for luck
▪
You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck .
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An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
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By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
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Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
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I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
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Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
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Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck .
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One for luck , and farewell.
Formula One/Two/Three etc
▪
And I don't think many people appreciate the physical demands of actually driving a Formula One car, especially through corners.
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If the Formula One circus is so bothered about avoiding accidents, why not run the entire race behind the safety car?
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It's almost embarrassing the way his Oxfordshire-based team have dominated Formula One this season.
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Like its Formula Two counterpart it was removed from the international calendar at the end of 1984.
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She knew that in between Formula One obligations he had, amazingly, managed to keep his construction interests afloat.
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Villeneuve, who had collided with Ralf Schumacher, gets paid £10MILLION for risking life and limb in Formula One.
I'll tell you something/one thing/another thing
▪
Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
I've heard that one before
I've only got one pair of hands
I/you can count sb/sth on (the fingers of) one hand
a/one bit at a time
▪
The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
a/one hell of a sth
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It was one hell of a party.
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Ray's a hell of a salesman.
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She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
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But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
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DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
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It's a hell of a game.
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It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
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It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
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That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
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They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
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We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
a/one hundred percent
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I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
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I agree with you a hundred percent.
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Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
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All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
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It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
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She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
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The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
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There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
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Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
as one man
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The crowd rise to their feet as one man .
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The... whole North arose as one man ....
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Undaunted, Athletico played as one man .
at a/one stroke
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Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke .
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But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke .
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Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke ?
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His reputation would be lost at a stroke .
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No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke , because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
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People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
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Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke .
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The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke .
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Then, at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
at one time
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At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
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See, I can lock the doors all at one time .
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There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time .
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This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time .
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You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time .
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Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time .
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It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
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The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
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The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
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The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
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Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time .
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We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time .
at/in one sitting
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Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting .
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As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting .
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At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting .
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But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting .
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I devoured it all almost at one sitting , reading it until my eyes closed.
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I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
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It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting .
be in a minority of one
be neither one thing nor the other
be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind
be/keep/stay one step ahead (of sb)
▪
It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
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Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
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The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
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We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
can do sth with one hand (tied) behind your back
criticize/nag/hassle sb up one side and down the other
do one
for one thing
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A higher body count score, for one thing .
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He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing .
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The ex-steelworkers, for one thing , have not gone away.
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Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing , which balances out the supposed benefits.
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Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
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Well, for one thing , women have a different experience in life.
go in (at) one ear and out (at) the other
▪
It goes in one ear and out the other.
go one better (than sb)
▪
Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better .
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But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
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Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
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Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
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Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better .
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She goes one better than last year.
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The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
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They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better .
half past one/two/three etc
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At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
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At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
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At half past two this morning my wife died.
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It was half past three in the morning.
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She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
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The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
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They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
have a one-track mind
▪
That guy has a one-track mind.
have had one too many
▪
Ron looked like he'd had one too many .
have more than one string to your bow
have one foot in the grave
▪
She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
have you heard the one about ...
hole in one
▪
Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
if ever there was one
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A crazy notion if ever there was one.
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An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
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Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
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He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
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Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
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My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
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My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
in one piece
▪
I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece !
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I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece .
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The china arrived all in one piece , thank God.
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Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece .
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All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece .
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All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece , go home, and get a job.
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At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
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It should fall out in one piece .
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It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
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Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece .
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The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece .
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When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
in one respect/in some respects etc
in one whack
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Steve lost $500 in one whack .
in words of one syllable
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Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
it's (just) one of those days
▪
"Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days ."
it's one thing to ..., (it's) another thing to ...,
it's six of one and half a dozen of the other
keep/have one eye/half an eye on sb/sth
kill two birds with one stone
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Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
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Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
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By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
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In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
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Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
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Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
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Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
leave sth aside/to one side
look out for number one
▪
We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
no one in their right mind ...
not a bit/not one bit
not a/not one
▪
But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
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This change is not a one way process.
not believe/think/do sth for a/one moment
▪
His hand had not wavered for a moment .
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His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
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I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
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I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
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Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment .
not one/an iota
▪
It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota .
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There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
▪
We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
not think/believe etc for one minute
nothing/no one can touch sb/sth
number one/two/three etc seed
one (damn/damned) thing after another
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Just one damn thing after another.
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She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
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Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
one ... or another
▪
At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
▪
Besides, he got his point across, one way or another , and usually in Chicago style.
▪
It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another .
▪
Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another .
▪
Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another .
▪
The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
▪
Three, in one form or another , are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
▪
To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another .
one after another
▪
Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another .
▪
He's had one problem after another this year.
▪
As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another .
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Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another , the golden days were illumined with changing light.
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Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
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Just moments, one after another , instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
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Just one after another on the streets.
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On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
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The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another .
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This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another .
one after another/one after the other
one another
▪
We always call one another during the holidays.
▪
Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another , right down to the silver beards.
▪
His mum and I held one another up.
▪
I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
▪
Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another .
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They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
▪
This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
▪
Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
one for the road
▪
And one for the road , the last word in car hi-fi.
one good turn deserves another
one in every three/two in every hundred etc
one in the eye for sb
▪
It was one in the eye for the old order.
one man's meat is another man's poison
one minute ... the next (minute) ...
one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
one o'clock/two o'clock etc
one of a kind
▪
This Persian carpet is one of a kind .
▪
Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
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Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
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Since his patterns were often one of a kind , he relied little on machinery.
one on top of the other
▪
Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
▪
He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
▪
Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
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The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
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There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
one thing leads to another
▪
But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
▪
I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
▪
You can be sure one thing leads to another.
one to watch
▪
Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch .
▪
Rab figured him the one to watch .
▪
Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
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The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
one-all/two-all etc
one-minute/two-minute etc silence
public enemy number one
▪
Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
▪
She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
▪
Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
pull the other one (it's got bells on)
put all your eggs in one basket
put one/sth over on sb
▪
They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
▪
Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
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Just put him over on the couch.
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They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
put/leave/set sth to one side
▪
Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
▪
She put it to one side , and opened the folder of photographs.
sb puts his pants on one leg at a time
seen one ... seen them all
shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc
slip one over on sb
▪
How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
speak with one voice
▪
It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
▪
Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
▪
This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
▪
Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
speak with one voice
▪
It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
▪
Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice , and it was loud.
▪
This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
▪
Where Clinton speaks with one voice , they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
square one
▪
After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
▪
Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
▪
He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
▪
If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
▪
Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
▪
Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
▪
We are back to square one.
sth is just one of those things
take/draw sb to one side
▪
Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
▪
He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
taking one thing with another
tell me another (one)
ten to one
▪
Ten to one Marsha will be late.
▪
It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
▪
Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
▪
All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
▪
He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
▪
I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
▪
She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
▪
The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
▪
They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
the last but one/the next but two etc
the one that got away
▪
Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
there is only one thing for it
there's more than one way to skin a cat
there's one born every minute
tie one on
▪
Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
two heads are better than one
under the same roof/under one roof
what with one thing and another
with one accord
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Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
V. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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There are some very good ones around.
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With primary pupils you get a lot of really complicated questions, and sometimes really good ones too.
▪
The best known ones are the Kuder Preference test and the Strong-Campbell interest inventory.
▪
Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems, long after they have been replaced by good ones .
▪
Some good ones to try are suggested in the table.
large
▪
Since then virtually every small printer, and most large ones , have changed from metal to film.
▪
A Small Hermit Crabs will not damage inverts, but larger ones will.
▪
Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10-20% are preferable to large monthly ones .
little
▪
The little ones were farmed out.
new
▪
Ironically, while they erected 660 churches, they closed thirty-three for every twenty-one new ones they built.
▪
Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones , composing new ones.
▪
They cultivate many types of fungus and are always searching for new ones to experiment with.
▪
As far as methods go, we may learn as much from their old techniques as from their new ones .
▪
It has saved some breweries from takeover, and encouraged new ones to open.
▪
During the three winter months, almost the entire squadron changed - well-known faces gradually disappearing and being replaced by new ones .
▪
Presumably your clothes will need to be altered or some new ones purchased.
▪
My first thought was to rush to the nearest d-i-y superstore to buy new ones .
old
▪
Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones , composing new ones.
▪
How do I remove the old ones without damaging the wall?
▪
Face despised face, the older ones moving in front of the younger ones, the weaker ones giving way to the stronger ones.
only
▪
It turned out she was just as fed up as me, and we were not the only ones .
▪
Just for those few minutes we were the only ones in the audience who knew what was to come.
▪
There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside.
▪
But the only ones who should be scared, outraged or psychotic are the governments and corporations, and perhaps the journalists.
▪
I used to think that we Met girls were the only ones awake and having to brave the elements.
▪
And you and I might be the only ones between your friend and the bullet.
small
▪
But while it happens, the big banks will be taking the strain of the smaller ones .
▪
I had six dozen smaller ones for the tape recorder and my torch.
▪
So far most of the business successes are small family-owned ones: groceries, restaurants, garages.
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This is another reason to avoid small units - far better to have a single big unit than two small ones .
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To minimise the chances of failure, make sure you have a few big Mobs rather than lots of small ones .
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Oh, and skips: two big and two small ones .
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The older age-groups were somewhat less likely than the younger ones to have an occupational pension.
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Face despised face, the older ones moving in front of the younger ones, the weaker ones giving way to the stronger ones.
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Mostly they died of shock, particularly the younger ones , so it was a bonus when one recovered.
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So I try to put the younger ones off acquiring one until they're older.
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Do you have any ones?