I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a musty/stale/sour smell (= old and not fresh )
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The clothes in the wardrobe had a damp musty smell.
go bad/sour etc
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The bread’s gone mouldy.
sour cream
sour relations (= make them less friendly )
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The dispute has soured relations between the two countries.
sour (= not fresh )
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Milk turns sour very quickly in hot weather.
sour
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The purpose of the lemon’s sour taste may be to stop the fruit being eaten by animals.
sour/soured cream (= with a slightly sour taste – used in cooking )
sour/soured cream (= with a slightly sour taste – used in cooking )
sour/tart (= not at all sweet )
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Some people prefer a slightly sour apple.
taste sweet/bitter/sour/salty
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He handed me some black stuff which tasted bitter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
cream
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Serve with apple sauce, sour cream or jam.
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Fold the reduced juice into the sour cream .
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Put strained liquid, sour cream , half coriander and grated Edam into a food processor or blender and whizz until smooth.
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Drizzle with salsa, sour cream and chopped cilantro.
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This is chutzpah on rye bread with a side order of pickles and sour cream .
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Remove from heat and stir in mustards, horseradish and sour cream .
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By now, his wife would have given up waiting and served the cold beetroot soup with sour cream and chives.
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The bright flavor of paprika, in combination with sour cream , is a perfect foil for the succulent meat of rabbit.
face
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She looked back over her shoulder at him and pulled a sour face .
grape
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It may sound like sour grapes but I assure you I feel no bitterness merely disappointed.
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Sounds like sour grapes to me.
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Are these just bad vibes and sour grapes or is hip hop just too naughty by nature for the mainstream?
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Already one began to hear the nickname Suicide Langford; but that was either sour grapes or silly sensationalism.
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There is certainly no defensiveness nor any sour grapes from me or any of the Editing for Industry committee.
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Envy and sour grapes had their customary party.
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This was sour grapes , a far-off voice of wisdom suggested.
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Criticisms from ex-players, in my opinion, are nothing but sour grapes .
look
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A Tory campaign machine on full throttle generally encountered sour looks and sullen stares.
milk
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There were cupboards hanging open, mattresses overturned and a bottle of sour milk stood in the sink.
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It stood, open and scoured, to breathe the air that purified it from any hint of sour milk .
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So much milk came into Waterloo that it was renowned for smelling of sour milk all day.
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Her cheap, strong perfume mingled with the sour milk and woodsmoke.
note
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If the player tampers with those, he is blamed for hitting a sour note , not praised for a daring interpretation.
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From workers there's bitterness that it's all ended on such a sour note .
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This needled Stirling and the meeting ended on a sour note .
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The craftsmen there hope their careers won't end on a sour note .
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Yet it would be wrong to end on a sour note .
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The only slightly sour note entered the proceedings with the president's plan to send a special envoy to Northern Ireland.
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The only sour note was the electrified fence that marked the forbidden border zone.
smell
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He moved around, inspecting each body carefully, holding his breath against the sour smell of corruption.
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He hated the sour smell and atmosphere of the club, where chairs had been pushed back to create a studio floor.
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After he had gone I found that my nightie was covered in a horrible sticky mess with a strange sour smell .
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It was a sour smell , but good.
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Even through her perfume she could still detect the sour smell of the sheets.
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There was a sour smell and the growing heat of the sun was sucking up a mist from the waters.
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There was a dank, sour smell to everything, a smell of decay and great antiquity.
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A sour smell of overcrowded humanity hung in the air.
taste
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She said her lines with the sour taste of sickness in her mouth, but got through them and her exit creditably.
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A very little bit of sugar works wonders for dishes that are based on sour tastes .
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But there was a sour taste in her throat suddenly.
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Eventually, even her rage had gone flat and stale, leaving her with nothing but a sour taste in her mouth.
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A sour taste flooded into his mouth.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In these temperatures, milk goes sour very quickly.
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Kvass is a mild beer that is sometimes used in Russian cooking for its sour flavor.
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She always had the same sour expression.
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The milk smells a little sour .
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The strawberries are a little sour - you may need to put sugar on them.
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The wine was so sour that I couldn't drink it.
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These cherries are really sour .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I smelt the sour odour of sweaty robes and noticed a brazier of gleaming charcoal had been rolled in.
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In 1993, a wage garnishment was filed against him stemming from a diamond sale gone sour .
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Soon he would smell the first sour tang of winter on the sea breezes.
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The minute the sour flavor exploded in his mouth, slivers of intense pain filled his head.
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The vision of bedsit freedom would soon turn sour .
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Too often relationships go sour or become impoverished through lack of attention.
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What is sour comes from pretending to be what we are not.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
turn
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Those risks can turn sour , as they do for any pin-striped market-maker.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The affair did not seem to have soured their friendship.
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The global trend towards higher taxation on fuel consumption is souring relations with leading oil-producing states.
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The incident soured relations between the two countries.
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The incident was serious enough to sour the atmosphere for weeks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ill-treated hobgoblins can cause strife and discord, though, souring milk, tangling clothes and muddying floors for spite.
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Many investors have soured on closedend funds because they were burned buying closed-end IPOs.
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Since each of these parties leant on the other for reassurance, relations between them will be soured as a result.
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That was still before people went to chokey for dodgy dealings, but he soured his own patch.
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The familiar dark soured then stung with chlorine.
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Worth noting about McMahon, though, is that some teams reportedly soured on his attitude at the Senior Bowl.