noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
knock
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Last week's leaders Tynemouth were knocked off their pedestal losing their first game of the season.
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Romantic shits - they're first to knock you off the pedestal they put you on.
place
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Another will place philanthropy on a pedestal and yet have a resentful, unforgiving spirit.
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Being placed on an artificial pedestal can be of advantage to the Volunteer as innovator.
put
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Let's face it, possum, there are some who would put me on a pedestal .
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If it is going to be special, put it on a pedestal of sorts.
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In the courtly love tradition, the woman was put on a pedestal - objectified.
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I was the most beautiful, wonderful woman and he put me on a pedestal .
stand
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Many of the dark rocks stand on limestone pedestals , the surrounding rocks having been eroded away.
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The Composite Order is used; the columns stand on sculptured pedestals .
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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
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And Murph will come down from that good-guy pedestal a little.
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Goddesses are made from female stones and the pedestal from male stones.
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He wanted Asquith on a pedestal and Lloyd George in an isolation hospital.
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If it is going to be special, put it on a pedestal of sorts.
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Some examples still had a moulded foot pedestal , while others had four short, cast and chased legs.
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The reverse process was used to install the launcher on pedestals at the pad.