I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cover photo/shot (= picture on the front cover )
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The picture became the July 4th cover shot.
a warning shot
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Troops fired warning shots over the heads of demonstrators.
be arrested/imprisoned/shot etc as a spy
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Anyone caught working with the Resistance was shot as a spy.
big shot
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His father’s a big shot and he thinks he is, too.
by a long way/shot informal ( also by a long chalk British English ) (= used when something is much better, quicker, cheaper etc )
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It was his best performance this year, by a long way.
cheap shot
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His remark was a cheap shot at short people.
drop shot
fired...shots
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The police fired two shots at the suspects before they surrendered.
jump shot
not by a long way/shot informal ( also not by a long chalk British English ) (= not at all or not nearly )
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He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot.
pot shot
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The boy took a pot shot at a pigeon with his air gun.
shot put
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an Olympic shot putter
sliced...shot
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With an open goal in front of him, Wiltord sliced his shot wide of the left post.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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He never hit a bad shot off the tee; it just didn't come back as far as he thought it would.
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At the beginning, they made me take bad shots .
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Tom played a bad shot out of the bunker, and he does no more than charge straight at this press guy.
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Mobley scored 33 points but took bad shots and was out of control.
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To hit all my bad shots down the side of the fairways where the lines of spectators are the deepest. 9.
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That much was the least expected of a hunter who had made a bad shot .
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If I hit a bad shot , I try to minimize its effect.
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In both halves, the Owls had difficulty setting up their offense and often rushed bad shots to beat the 35-second clock.
big
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As a young player I look for subtlety and skill, not big top spin shots all the time.
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Among Western Conference big shots , only San Antonio seems trouble-free right now.
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This is a matter between the big shots .
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I gave my opinion but, of course, it was a big shot so early in the game.
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You see, all the artists wanted to be big shots .
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He will be a big shot one day, she thinks.
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Malone, however, choked when it came to making his two biggest shots of the game.
cheap
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It was a cheap shot but an effective one.
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Green Bay players complained that the Cowboys are taught to apply cheap shots .
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What if it's just a cheap take-over shot and Madreidetic aren't the guilty ones?
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Take cheap shots and distort facts in order to get ahead?
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He deserves better than to be criticised by gay activists with such a cheap shot .
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Or, analysts say, it could be a cheap shot by an employee at an Apple competitor.
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There is increased range flexibility, it is cheaper shot for shot and it leaves a much more saleable end-product.
good
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Confidence is the result of good shots and they come from good technique.
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And then they hit Macintosh with their best shot .
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This meant I didn't have to get risk life and limb to get a good close up shot .
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I climbed a chestnut tree and got a good shot of them together.
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Ed Kelley was a good shot .
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He was following good shots with excellent shots-an inspired round.
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Hopefully he can recover and regain his test place and give it his best shot .
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You have to get 80 or 81 percent of it and then take your best shot and go on to something else.
long
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He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot .
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City officials and securities experts think the activists are betting on a long shot .
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That's a long shot though.
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The 45-year-old candidate remains the longest of long shots for the Republican nomination.
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Tracer laid stitches across the sky: the bombers still in formation were firing long shots at him.
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This is a long shot , but I still want to try it.
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I think it's a long shot him signing for Leeds.
low
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Kevin Wilson was given space by Clarke's precise header to beat Strakosha with a low cross shot .
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Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot .
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They fell further behind when excellent Chiddingfold approach work ended with Leigh Allaker scoring with a fierce low shot .
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Mooney scored the goal of the game when he burst down the left and hit a low shot into the far corner.
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Grobbelaar flapped at McGee's cross and when Miller drove in a low shot Sanchez turned the ball into the net.
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Herobbed Guppy just outside the area and swept a low shot past keeper Paul Hyde.
single
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It has been used twice before to kill, and each time a single shot was fired.
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Ruestman died from a single shot to his heart after answering a knock at the front door of his mobile home.
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The latter was essential as the police only fired single shots .
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From the hut behind them they had heard a single shot .
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For scripting movies, there is a standard format in which each line represents a single shot .
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Align bolt thrower on target and declare single or multiple shot .
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When it is your turn to shoot, declare whether you are firing a single shot or a volley.
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He disappeared into some trees and Charlie distinctly heard a single shot somewhere above the noise of battle.
■ NOUN
action
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The papers received their photo of the band with Best but also scurried to their files to find their own action shots .
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Below it there is an action shot of Jackie Robinson sliding into second base.
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The new series kicks off with brilliant action shots taken at SummerSlam, the record breaking Wembley event.
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Photographers from this Unit were to take some of the finest action shots of the war.
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It fits snugly into the hands and is ideal for grabbing action shots with a minimum of fuss.
jump
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Then, we have to start trapping with other guys, and they end up with open jump shots .
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Tiffany is 12 years old, and she had just retooled her jump shot .
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Then, all of a sudden, we just started taking jump shots .
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For Spurs guard Vinny Del Negro, who was trying to realign his jump shot , this might have posed a distraction.
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We said we wanted Smith to work on his jump shot , not turn it into a career path.
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He is 7-1 and he loves 15-foot jump shots .
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Chris Carr can play; what he needs are 500 jump shots a day and a dose of maturity.
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They were Mo Taylor getting himself rolling consistently toward the basket and dropping in finger rolls and jump shots .
tee
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His tee shot lacked the necessary left-to-right spin and finished in one of the two fairway bunkers.
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Nobody else would have dared such a tee shot .
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His tee shot ended up in the rough and from there he could only slash the ball 50 yards over the green.
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The good tee shot was played to the far right of the fairway to set up a second shot to the left.
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His playing partner, however, responded with what was probably his worst tee shot of the week.
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He hits a decent tee shot .
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Woosnam was instantly plunged into the blackest of moods and after hitting his tee shot he marched off muttering.
warning
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Before she could investigate further, her own dim worm fired a warning shot .
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Private Morrison's boat was fired on when he ignored warning shots .
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Reset those guns to fire warning shots , and try to keep us safe till dawn.
■ VERB
block
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A police car emerged from the other alleyway and screeched to a halt ten yards in front of Whitlock, blocking his shot .
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He can make shots , he can block shots....
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His one chance came just before half-time when a defender's shins blocked his shot .
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He can go through a slump and still block shots .
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Six minutes from the end Murdoch again came to the visitors' rescue when he dived to block a shot from Hateley.
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McCoy returned a few minutes later and quickly hit two mid-range jumpers and blocked two Bryant Boston shots in succession.
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Five minutes later Hislop blocked a shot from Andy Cole, and Sheringham wafted the rebound over the bar.
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And any time the Cardinal ventured into the lane, McCoy was there to block or alter shots .
call
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Cant about the free market creating opportunities for poor people is meaningless when wealth calls all the shots .
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Traditionally, Tucson Water officials have also been allowed to call the shots .
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But chaps who try chat-up lines of their own get the boot-because she likes to call the shots .
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Not many years ago, they called all the shots .
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Watching outsiders call the shots is not easy.
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The condition was that the transaction be conducted in whorehouse terms: he paid the trick, he called the shots .
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He had been in another program, where he got to call all the shots .
drop
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Mickelson dropped a shot , and the two-stroke swing created a three-stroke gap.
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The blue-barred stag twisted away from the steel and found height, dipping like a lapwing, and dropping for a head shot .
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Watson dropped shots down the stretch, while Levi completed a round of 69 that sealed a four-shot win over Payne Stewart.
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He dropped three further shots but finished with a trio of pars for a share of third place.
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Even if we drop a shot because Jacklin makes four, it still keeps us in the Open.
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He was also badly bunkered at the fifth to drop another shot .
fire
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They identified themselves as Federal Police and forced an entry, firing shots wildly into the house.
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In 1871 Henry James fired a warning shot in the Nation, a magazine that Olmsted had helped found.
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Rob Madgwick dispossessed Wright and fired in a shot that was well saved by Stuart Burt.
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If you miss then you can not fire any further shots that turn.
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He took out his new gun and fired off a few shots at an ugly chimney on the roof.
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As the group advanced on him, the constable fired off another shot , this time hitting Jones in the upper thigh.
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Clark had reportedly fired one shot but it could not be shown whether he fired before or after the police began shooting.
get
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I can get some notes for my article in Granada and Mitch can get some shots .
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This is war, and defectors get shot .
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But foxes in chicken runs get shot , and now the Israelites get the plague.
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But the real appeal to cities turned out to be getting a walloping fiscal shot in the arm.
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They don't care about the family man getting shot , they don't care about the families.
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The Trojans brought the ball up but could not get off a decent shot .
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You get shot , you're shot - you survive or you die.
give
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I just have a feeling that we have given it our best shot .
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The districts had been created under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to give minorities a special shot at winning public office.
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The band gave it their best shot , until the arrival of the blue meanies put an end to the proceedings.
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Near the end, it was Barbara who gave her the shots of Demerol.
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I'd have given it my best shot , and that was all anyone could demand from me.
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Robey was a pioneer who gave black talent a shot , a black surviving in a racist industry.
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We wanted into the book badly, and gave it a shot one afternoon.
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The medics had given Mike a shot , and he was unconscious all the way.
hear
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Neither of us spoke but we both knew that if we heard shots it meant that the operation had failed.
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She said Hernandez Machin told them she slowed down, then heard a shot that hit Valdez Lopez in the back.
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From the hut behind them they had heard a single shot .
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She worried whether Jack had killed the two men when she later heard the two shots and the screaming.
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I saw people running down from the house, I heard some shots , but that was all.
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Martin said he then heard three shots .
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Local shopkeepers who heard the shots went to investigate.
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In the meantime Timante, alone, hears some shots and sees two men appear in a launch.
hit
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Johnny Miller hit his shots high, ballooned them, and that was no good this year.
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When he hits an errant golf shot , or makes a mental error on the course, he gets aggravated.
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Peter Allis has turned golf into a kind of harmless interview where public figures hit a few shots and chat about themselves.
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A 72. 7 percent free throw shooter, he hit the shot , and the score was tied.
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These measurements were vital to Jack Mason who relied upon me to confirm where he should hit his shots and how hard.
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Airoso then walked before Hurd hit the final shot .
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Cink hit a poor shot through the green, into a horrible lie.
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Williams hit an arching shot from the wing, capping a game-ending 8-0 run.
miss
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Well, Tod looks to have missed with both his shots .
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Ferdinand, who missed her first four shots , helped jump-start an 18-4 run with seven straight points.
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If he misses then the shot is his last for that turn.
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They had three chances to take the lead but failed each time and eventually missed eight straight shots .
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The Trojans shot 41 percent from the field, missed easy inside shots and lost Wilson, their best rebounder.
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I never knew you to miss a shot like that before, Papa.
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She remembers only the turnovers, the missed shots .
play
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The 3-wood serves as a driver and the 5-wood for playing fairway shots .
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Does that mean Woosnam can play shots that Peter can not?
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Lord said he was at a loss to find room to play his shots in the first two games.
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In fact, Roy disdains the cowardice of anyone who plays the easier shot .
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Here's how I play this shot .
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By now I was well into the groove and I can't remember playing a defensive shot in the innings.
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Then there was Payne Stewart in waterproofs and also in water, playing splash shots like a rabbit.
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The secret of playing these shots is to adopt the stance you are comfortable with.
take
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I take a shot at the odd one that flies over Uskair strictly illegal, I know.
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Yeltsin is taking shots from Communists, ultranationalists and even the progressive democrats who used to be his allies.
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Some publications like to take their own shots and others are not illustrated.
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Mobley scored 33 points but took bad shots and was out of control.
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Dozens of men and boys take turns trading shots with him.
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He doesn't have to take as many shots and gives more time to each one he wants.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
call the shots/tune
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But chaps who try chat-up lines of their own get the boot-because she likes to call the shots.
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Does not the divine drama seem to suggest that the Devil is calling the tune?
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It was the businessmen, not the lords, who called the tune when the industrial system began.
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Now, those calling the shots for the company began to realize that the whole damn case was getting too risky.
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Strug, the Houstonian with powerful floor and vault routines, may benefit from having Karolyi calling the shots.
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Traditionally, Tucson Water officials have also been allowed to call the shots.
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Watching outsiders call the shots is not easy.
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You young girls can call the tune nowadays.
crack shot
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A crack shot and a notorious gambler.
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And of course the doctor is a crack shot...
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Dirk, nearly sixteen, is a crack shot.
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The book centres on young blonde Donna, a crack shot with a.45 Magnum.
give sth a try/shot/whirl
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Are you having trouble fixing the printer? Let me give it a shot.
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But on this case, I can not give it a try - that is the point.
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He says he thought he'd give it a try, but he got stuck.
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Joe gives her the shot twice a week.
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Magnus grew fat on brown wholemeal scraps and Gina gave up trying to keep him away.
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She had given up trying to read to him, play with him, teach him anything: he could not learn.
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Vladimir finally gave up trying to teach me and returned to his sketching.
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We wanted into the book badly, and gave it a shot one afternoon.
have shot your bolt
long shot
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City officials and securities experts think the activists are betting on a long shot.
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He had not told Rory everything, not by a long shot.
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It's a long shot, but well worth trying.
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Its brief revival was sparked by Dziekanowski who fed Tarasiewicz and for once a long shot had Shilton in trouble.
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She had looked everywhere else and, although it seemed a long shot, she might as well look in there.
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The 45-year-old candidate remains the longest of long shots for the Republican nomination.
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This is a long shot, but I still want to try it.
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With all the interest the article had generated, Fanshawe no longer seemed like such a long shot.
parting shot
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As Eve was leaving, she couldn't resist a parting shot at Brian: "I never loved you anyway!"
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As it will be the best remembered part of your presentation, your parting shot needs to be powerful.
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Gilliland, however, had a parting shot to fire in his paper in Astrophysical Journal.
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He left with a parting shot at Supervisor Mike Boyd.
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He was strong enough now to attribute the man's parting shot about his drawings to sheer malice.
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It's no coincidence that it originated in Moscow - this was the Communist old guard's parting shot.
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The ultimate parting shot from an ungrateful aircraft that had enjoyed every care and attention.
take a pot shot at sb/sth
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There is a small but vocal minority that likes to take pot shots at the United Nations.
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It would be easy, even tempting, to take a pot shot at us.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His first shot missed. The second hit its target.
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I got some great shots of Mount Fuji with the sun setting behind it.
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Police fired shots into the air and used water cannon to disperse the crowd.
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Shaw made the shot and turned to run down the court.
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The cars went past so quickly that she only had time to take a couple of shots.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Charlie dived for cover behind the altar, a second shot went off.
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Denver 105, Bulls 99: Bulls made 39. 8 percent of their shots.
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In the second round he muffed a shot about 90 yards and banged his ball against a tree.
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It wasn't too windy, but windy enough to cause the occasional shot to go astray.
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Many times the Bruins appeared unprepared for the shots and were in poor rebounding position.
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Peter Jacobsen despatched the first serious shot of the Masters.
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This was not a candid shot .
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With rigid body, I waited for the shots, but none came.
II. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
call the shots/tune
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But chaps who try chat-up lines of their own get the boot-because she likes to call the shots.
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Does not the divine drama seem to suggest that the Devil is calling the tune?
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It was the businessmen, not the lords, who called the tune when the industrial system began.
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Now, those calling the shots for the company began to realize that the whole damn case was getting too risky.
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Strug, the Houstonian with powerful floor and vault routines, may benefit from having Karolyi calling the shots.
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Traditionally, Tucson Water officials have also been allowed to call the shots.
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Watching outsiders call the shots is not easy.
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You young girls can call the tune nowadays.
give sth a try/shot/whirl
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Are you having trouble fixing the printer? Let me give it a shot.
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But on this case, I can not give it a try - that is the point.
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He says he thought he'd give it a try, but he got stuck.
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Joe gives her the shot twice a week.
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Magnus grew fat on brown wholemeal scraps and Gina gave up trying to keep him away.
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She had given up trying to read to him, play with him, teach him anything: he could not learn.
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Vladimir finally gave up trying to teach me and returned to his sketching.
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We wanted into the book badly, and gave it a shot one afternoon.
have shot your bolt
take a pot shot at sb/sth
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There is a small but vocal minority that likes to take pot shots at the United Nations.
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It would be easy, even tempting, to take a pot shot at us.