PEDESTAL


Meaning of PEDESTAL in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

knock

Last week's leaders Tynemouth were knocked off their pedestal losing their first game of the season.

Romantic shits - they're first to knock you off the pedestal they put you on.

place

Another will place philanthropy on a pedestal and yet have a resentful, unforgiving spirit.

Being placed on an artificial pedestal can be of advantage to the Volunteer as innovator.

put

Let's face it, possum, there are some who would put me on a pedestal .

If it is going to be special, put it on a pedestal of sorts.

In the courtly love tradition, the woman was put on a pedestal - objectified.

I was the most beautiful, wonderful woman and he put me on a pedestal .

stand

Many of the dark rocks stand on limestone pedestals , the surrounding rocks having been eroded away.

The Composite Order is used; the columns stand on sculptured pedestals .

In the shadows, in front of an outcrop of rock, stood a pedestal .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

knock sb off their pedestal/perch

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And Murph will come down from that good-guy pedestal a little.

Goddesses are made from female stones and the pedestal from male stones.

He wanted Asquith on a pedestal and Lloyd George in an isolation hospital.

If it is going to be special, put it on a pedestal of sorts.

Some examples still had a moulded foot pedestal , while others had four short, cast and chased legs.

The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.

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