pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
... or anything/something spoken (= or something of the same kind )
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Would you like a coffee or something?
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She wasn’t involved in drugs or anything like that .
a little something informal (= a small present, or a small amount of food )
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I’d like to buy him a little something to thank him.
an explosion of interest in something
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There has been an explosion of interest in networking websites in the last few years.
anything/nothing/something particular
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I had nothing particular planned.
anything/something/nothing special
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Are you doing anything special for Christmas?
be something of a gamble (= involve an amount of risk )
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A few years ago, launching a weekly magazine for men would have been something of a gamble.
be something of a novelty (= seem quite new and different )
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At that time, cars were still something of a novelty.
be something of an obsession (= be almost as strong as an obsession )
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The case became something of an obsession with him.
do something/nothing/anything
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He lay on the sofa and did nothing all day.
(do) you know what/something?
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You know what? I think he’s lonely.
find something to eat
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I got dressed and went downstairs to find something to eat.
get something to eat (= prepare or buy some food )
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I’m sure you can get something to eat on the train.
had something on...mind
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He looked as though he had something on his mind .
have something/anything/nothing to say
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He usually has something to say about just about everything.
have something/nothing to eat (= eat something/nothing )
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We’ll leave after we’ve had something to eat.
It’s come to something when
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It’s come to something when I’m not allowed to express an opinion in my own house!
It’s quite something
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It’s quite something to walk out on stage in front of 20,000 people.
mean something to
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You need to use analogies which will mean something to the reader.
meant something
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Of course the relationship meant something to me.
say something/anything/nothing
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I was about to say something to him when he looked up and smiled.
something along those lines
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They’re trying to organize a trip to the beach or something along those lines .
something funny going on
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There’s something funny going on here.
something strange about
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She felt there was something strange about Dexter’s voice.
something to drink
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Take a seat while I get you something to drink .
something unintelligible
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Eva muttered something unintelligible .
something unusual
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We want to know if anyone saw something unusual last night.
something/anything/nothing suspicious
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Call the police if you see anything suspicious.
something/nothing is wrong
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It was four whole days before anyone even noticed something was wrong.
something/nothing/anything happens
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Something terrible has happened.
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She carried on as if nothing had happened.
something/nothing/everything goes wrong
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If something goes wrong with your machine, you can take it back to the dealer.
Something...snapped
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Something inside him snapped , and he hit her.
suspect something/nothing/anything
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He never suspected anything.
there is something/nothing sinister about sb/sth
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There was something sinister about Mr Scott’s death.
there is something/nothing wrong
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There’s something wrong with this yogurt.
There’s something...about
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There’s something really strange about Liza.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(something) in the neighbourhood of £500/30% etc
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.
a lot/something/not much etc to be said for (doing) sth
do something about sth
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And the second view shows a marked advantage when we begin to do something about behavior.
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For those who are reluctant, understand why and do something about it.
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I'd better do something about improving it.
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I keep thinking I should do something about this place but there's never any time.
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If the result is none too pleasant, it's time to do something about it.
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We've got to do something about the bomb before we start.
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We better do something about this deficiency right now.
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Whenever Gandhi felt distressed or disturbed he wanted to do something about it.
get something off your chest
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People are able to get things off their chest in these meetings.
have something to say about sth
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You'd better tell your dad about the dent in the car - I'm sure he'll have something to say about it.
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However, Trevor Francis' Birmingham will have something to say about that.
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I shall have something to say about original boards a little later.
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Jen looked at me as if I ought to have something to say about this.
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Jerome would have something to say about that...
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Mind you, Sunderland, of course, could have something to say about that at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon.
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Rodman would have something to say about juvenile fantasies of self-reliance if I told him that one.
have something up your sleeve
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Don't worry. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve .
it won't/wouldn't kill sb (to do something)
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It wouldn't kill you to do the dishes.
keep/put something on ice
lose something in the translation/telling
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It probably loses something in the translation from the original Latin.
not have the heart to do something
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I didn't have the heart to tell my daughter we couldn't keep the puppy.
prove yourself/prove something (to sb)
quite something
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It is quite something to discover giant tubeworms clustered around warm water flowing from the seafloor.
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Matthau, who has died aged 79, was quite something.
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Putting some one's shoulder back into place standing on a six inch ledge is quite something.
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Then he said: This is quite something.
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To most of us, however, nothing is more obvious than that the universe really is quite something.
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Would have been quite something if they'd brought him back.
something fierce
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It rained something fierce during our trip.
something is up
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As I walk through the hotel lobby in Manila I know that something is up .
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The first he knows that something is up is when he hears a great cry of anguish from the town.
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They stopped talking to him, which is always a hint that something is up .
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Vik senses something is up and confronts Karen, who tells him Steve tried it on with her.
something like
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In the USA something like 4000 such accidents occur each year.
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Smith is already something like $10,000 in debt.
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The project will take us something like three weeks.
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And it goes something like this.
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And it stands a better chance than most of lasting for something like a full five-year term.
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It must have been something like that.
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There was another example of something like this at one point a little earlier in the year.
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They got an unreal turnover, something like seventy-five million a year.
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We can tell Mr Goodwin to patrol the grounds in case he is dumped, tied up, or something like that.
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Well, something like the churning of the Nile River, which keeps on recreating the fertile farmlands at her delta.
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You grow up idealizing something like law.
something of the/that kind
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Certainly Hannah Mitchell wished something of the kind had existed to give her advice on childrearing.
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I still had five, and I had rather expected something of the kind might happen.
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Rosa felt such shock, although she told herself she should have expected something of the kind .
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The news provoked among Zuwaya an instant recognition of necessary truth: they had always suspected something of the kind .
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When something of that kind comes on to the market it creates a storm.
something/anything/what happens to sb/sth
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Actually, no matter what happens to the business cycle, people will continue to eat and to get sick.
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Do all the fish die and what happens to the occupants of metal-hulled boats?
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If anything happens to me, just bury me at Wounded Knee.
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Suppose Holt's 6-year-old does opt out of school? What happens to her then?
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Tell the students to hold the jars and look at the items through them. What happens to the items?
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The power is cut! What happens to the cake?
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We thought of having a party on that day to watch what happens to one another.
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What are the determinants of supply? What happens to the supply curve when each of these determinants changes?
something/someone/somewhere etc or other
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Almost all our citizens are indicted for something or other .
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Calls himself Jack something or other .
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He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other .
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Iris is off somewhere or other for the next few days.
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It was decided by someone or other that we would stay out at Lima with the grunts.
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Later on, we were on another job, looking after a defence minister from somewhere or other .
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Nineteen fifty something or other convertible.
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Somebody else got a chocolate something or other .
start something/anything
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If you start something in there, don't expect me to back you up.
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I figured I must be the only fool who was trying to start something.
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I myself had started something of a relationship with her just now.
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I think we have to be autocratic about officers, at first, in order to start something.
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In fact, I was thinking I might try and start something along those lines as soon as I can.
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It's, well, enough to get by on, but not much more, not enough to start something.
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The standard affair, nowadays, will start something like this.
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Those involved were told that they should have consulted the senior branch before starting anything like that.
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When I brought you that painting, it started something.
take to something like a duck to water
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She's taken to her new position like a duck to water.
the horror of something
what's the matter?/something's the matter/nothing's the matter etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Come here - I want to show you something .