I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be stuck/caught/held up in traffic
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Sorry I’m late – I was stuck in traffic.
carrot and stick approach
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the government’s carrot and stick approach in getting young people to find jobs
cocktail stick
fish stick
French stick
gear stick
get sth caught/stuck etc
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She got her foot caught in the wire.
joss stick
keep to/stick to a plan
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We’re sticking to our original plan.
Memory Stick
pogo stick
remain/stay/stick in your memory (= be remembered for a long time )
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That day will remain in my memory forever.
sb's ears stick out (= they are noticeable because they do not lie flat against someone's head )
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If my hair is too short, you can see that my ears stick out.
shooting stick
stick figure
stick insect
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young models who look like stick insects are very thin
stick man
stick of celery
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a stick of celery
stick shift
stick to a diet (= continue to follow a diet )
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Most people find it hard to stick to a diet.
stick to the facts (= say only what you know is true )
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Just stick to the facts when the police interview you.
stick to your principles (= act according to them, even when this is difficult )
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Throughout this time, he stuck to his principles and spoke out against injustice.
stick to your story (= keep saying it is true )
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He didn’t believe her at first, but she stuck to her story.
stick to/go by the rules informal (= obey them )
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We all have to stick to the rules.
sticking point
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North Korea’s refusal had long been a sticking point.
stuck in a rut
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I was stuck in a rut and decided to look for a new job.
stuck in...traffic jam
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We were stuck in a traffic jam for two hours.
stuck out...tongue
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The girl scowled at me, then stuck out her tongue .
stuck together through thick and thin
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Then, families stuck together through thick and thin .
stuck...morass
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They were stuck in a morass of paperwork.
swizzle stick
walking stick
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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Most don't stick around long enough.
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It all goes merrily or unhappily along whether you stick around to watch or not.
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She liked to stick around , see the results, maybe enjoy some off-camera larks in the back office.
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He also has a lucrative five-year contract at Hilton that makes it worth his while to stick around .
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They should bloody well have stuck around till we turned up.
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They announced that they wanted to talk to everyone, and they asked everyone to stick around for a while.
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There was some problem about him getting paid so he stuck around .
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Why do beneficial bugs stick around ?
fast
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It involves wearing a suit covered with velcro hooks, which then sticks fast to a velcro covered target.
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It was summer, and the door, which was rarely opened, must have swelled in place and stuck fast .
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After he had hit, Silva chased up the hill to establish that his ball had stuck fast to the putting surface.
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But once established, life stuck fast .
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We are an odd collection assembled here, stuck fast like stubborn limpets to that eastern shore throughout the winter.
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They stick fast , round here.
in
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There is comfort to be had in sticking with what is most tangible.
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So don't hang around ... get stuck in !
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You have got just to find some place and stay there and get stuck in .
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Against the superlative archers of Ulthuan my inclination is to get stuck in as quickly as possible.
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That's commendable in some ways but good forward play depends on honest commitment with everyone getting stuck in.
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Half your army wants to hang back and shoot, the other half wants to get stuck in as quickly as possible.
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What a lousy place for children to be stuck in .
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A Mob of even five Boar Boyz is potentially very strong and can get stuck in once your core units are committed.
just
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Just stick around here until we can think of something.
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Just stick with today; is what he recommends.
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Why doesn't one just stick to the ordinary, real time that we understand?
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Why not just stick with egg rolls and pot stickers, which most kitchens can handle with relative ease?
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I know it's not easy at first, so you just stick with us.
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I just stuck it in there.
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He offers me a free go too but I just stick my nose in the air and say no thanks.
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Some of us just stick to the shadows and sneak by.
out
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He grimaced and scratched his short, curly black hair where it stuck out from under his tartan cap.
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You are horrified to see a small foot sticking out from behind your rear tire.
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Typical of young shearwaters, it was just a ball of grey down with a beak sticking out .
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Before that, Donahue climbed down the iron rungs sticking out the sides of the manhole.
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Under his arm he carried a large portfolio of drawings and she saw that he had pencils sticking out from his pocket.
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Say you were stuck out in the Sonoran wilderness at high noon in summer, lost, thirsty and tired.
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They can also be distinguished by their almost globular shape and the long protruding remnant of the style sticking out on top.
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A real pilot tossed dynamite sticks out the window of his Cessna.
to
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The record of negotiating - and sticking to - regional specialisation in basic industries has not been impressive.
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Some diets are easier to stick to than others; some give better results than others.
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Don't paint short nails with dark colours. Stick to very pale or clear shades.
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Its leaders have policies they want to stick to.
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Why do I find it so hard to stick to?
together
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Nicola and Emily stuck together and together they stuck to Richard, content to be a part of it all.
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The key was lineage; members of the Anglo-Saxon ascendancy stuck together .
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Some diets are coated by the manufacturer to prevent the pellets sticking together during autoclaving.
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The oil caused the birds' feathers to stick together and hurt their ability to fly.
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This technique involves nudging two or more zona-free 8- to 16-cell embryos together in culture until they stick together.
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They stick together , and they stick close.
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We've just got to pull ourselves together and stick together and we can pull out of this.
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Rebelling against the manager that formed them, the girls decided to stick together and make their own choices.
up
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When they'd stuck up the paintings, which made the room less like a chalky concrete box, they ran downstairs.
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He pointed to a fresh cut on a scrawny root sticking up through the dust.
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When push came to shove, I stuck up for him.
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She wore black tights, and maroon socks that stuck up above her boots.
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A couple of years later he graduated to sticking up posters to advertise concerts.
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They turned their heads again when they saw the bright blue racing wheelchair sticking up out of the back seat.
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But there the aircraft is, its fuselage sticking up out of your house.
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Should I still stick up for her? &038;.
■ NOUN
car
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The Severn Tag is stuck inside a car windscreen.
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The family also sticks to used cars .
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Hundreds of fans at the Reading Rock Festival were stuck with their cars and vans in thick mud last night.
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Facilities director Rick Harris said he stopped elevator service to make sure no one would get stuck in the cars .
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But he seemed stuck in the car .
craw
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He and the son have a whole lot sticking in their craw .
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He was jammed up against something; there was something stuck in his craw .
finger
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Masklin stuck a finger in his ear and wiggled it around.
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You must have stuck your finger in there or something.
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I clenched out the light and stuck my fingers in my ears.
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You might have to press in material sticking out with your finger , without smearing the wood.
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It was so cold that it burnt her, so cold that it stuck to her fingers .
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Once the rope was removed, he rolled Gao Ma on to his back and again stuck a finger under his nose.
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It will be they who commit the most crime, it will be they who will stick two fingers up to conventional mores.
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George stuck out his index finger and raised his thumb.
gun
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He told her that being firm, sticking to one's guns in situations of this kind, always paid off.
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But Klein stuck to his guns .
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The two brothers had conversation after conversation on the theme of religion, the younger one sticking to his guns .
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And there was great admiration for Livingstone's transparent honesty, self-effacing modesty and determination to stick to his guns .
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Spenser should have stuck to his guns and been satisfied with unity of design.
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Whether I'd stuck to my guns or not, it had been a harrowing experience and I felt abused.
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The clubs should have stuck to their guns .
hair
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He grimaced and scratched his short, curly black hair where it stuck out from under his tartan cap.
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She's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom.
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And I usually pin my hair up and stick it under a baseball cap.
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She looked grotesque, a little ridiculous, with thin clumps of hair sticking out of her mouth as if she was munching.
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Her hair was stuck in spikes with jam.
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His red hair stuck out at all angles.
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His black hair sticks out from wind and rain.
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A hair was stuck to it, a red one, the boy's.
hand
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Feeling small and lousy, not knowing what to do; fit for nothing, not even to stick out your hand .
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He stuck his hands into his pockets, the fingers numb and red.
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He stuck out his hand for a handshake.
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I stuck out a hand and found him, and we got in and Patience gave him her address.
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As she did both Ellie and Patsy stuck their hands into the jar together for the delicious looking cookies.
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The lump pushed gently at its front and she stuck her hands in her pockets and thrust it forward.
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It looked as if Changez had stuck his hand into a fire and had had flesh, bone and sinew melted together.
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The man takes a plastic tub of something and sticks his hands in it.
head
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I was coming through from my bathroom, so I stuck my head round the door.
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I stuck my head out of the window and took deep breaths of the fragrant air.
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The Campbell's all-black window swished down and evil Jim stuck his head out.
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The chestnut colt stuck its head in through the open window to lick her hand with its warm tongue.
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But what sticks in my head , ridiculously, is the cabinet pudding.
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Those drills where they make us stick our heads between our legs?
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A sigh of relief whistled through his teeth as he stuck his head into the pantry.
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At one point I almost had to stick my head out the window.
jam
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Her hair was stuck in spikes with jam .
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Congestion makes things worse: cars stuck in traffic jams pollute three times as much as those on the open road.
mind
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I think those types of things stick in children's minds , so I didn't want her there.
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Yet the one small doubt stuck in her mind like a burr in tweed.
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But it stuck in my mind .
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It must have stuck in her mind , that an honest person might act out of character when severely threatened.
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It is not surprising that phrases do not stick in the mind .
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One incident that has always stuck in my mind was when I dove for my foxhole at the opening mortar round.
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One boy,, really sticks out in my mind .
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Perhaps the image is just so startling that it sticks in our minds .
mud
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If he'd gone right down, he'd have stuck in the mud , and been out of the tide.
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One day while sailing down the Mississippi the Diamond Joe became stuck in mud .
neck
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You don't have to stick your neck out in meetings.
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The experts avoid sticking their own necks out.
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He'd stuck his neck out all right, but not as much as he'd led Holman to believe.
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She listened to his ideas, had even stuck her neck out to champion some of his more radical plans.
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And many economists are reluctant to stick their necks out.
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Let Bixby stick his neck out for once, he thought as he stared wearily at his folded hands.
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So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years.
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I want to stick my neck out and help her.
nose
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He offers me a free go too but I just stick my nose in the air and say no thanks.
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Hairs sticking out of his nose and ears.
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Well, why not - he was sticking his nose in everywhere else.
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Sammy stuck his nose in the air, delighted at such attention.
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But maybe he's thinking that Gerald and Les might like to know you're sticking your nose in.
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We all stuck our noses that much deeper into the Colonel's Sumbanese rugs.
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Often he was right, often I gave him a bad time for sticking his nose in.
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Bossy matriarch Pauline Faaahhhhler finds out she's the real grandma of Sonia's baby and sticks her nose right in.
plan
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It was not in him to stick to a plan .
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Watts says he intends to stick to his plan of serving only three terms in the House.
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The business world rewards those who stick to a plan .
principle
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She was not to know that Tina, sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis.
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But we have to stick to our principles .
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What a revolution there would be in our behaviour and attitudes if we were to stick to those two principles !
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Nizan stuck to his principles , but after 1939 he became a political refugee.
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On receiving the petition demanding Outram's resignation they stuck to the principle of laissez-faire.
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Eddi Reader is one who sticks to the principles established in her old band Fairground Attraction.
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Had I stuck to my principles or had I simply followed orders?
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May we come to respect ourselves for sticking to our principles and living our lives with honesty and integrity.
rule
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I'd stuck to the rules arid nothing had happened.
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That government said at the summit it was sticking to the rules , and then suggested afterward it would not not.
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Voice over Failure to stick to the safety rules is simply playing with fire.
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It was all right if she was hours late, but Henry had to stick to the rules .
story
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Mrs Nowak and Taczek must have got to know most of the truth and stuck by the cover story .
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You do not have to stick to the story line.
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Bring in the police, the press, the king himself, and I shall stick to my story .
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Jay stuck to that story until Sunday morning.
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He had stuck to his story , that they'd quarrelled at the dance and he had left early.
throat
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Did he want me to eat shit or the words stick in my throat and choke me?
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Now he toppled over backward with the weapon stuck upright in his throat .
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Swallow, something sticking in my throat .
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It stuck in my throat and I had to cough and cough to dislodge it.
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While the arrows still seemed stuck in their throats they danced to right and left with short, shuffling steps.
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The breath was stuck in her throat and her mouth felt dry.
thumb
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He stuck one thumb out when the car was still a few hundred yards away.
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Steinkamp swam up to it and stuck her thumbs in her ears, seemingly making a childish face at it.
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As he stuck a sceptical thumb into a tub of rock-hard Camembert, he knew he was facing a first-class mess.
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The next morning, all bandaged up, I stuck out my thumb and caught a ride to Tay Ninh.
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I stuck my thumb in the top, pulled it off, and offered her the bottle.
tongue
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Stuart sighed and Linda Paterson stuck out her tongue at him.
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Mitchell turned around lust in time to see her stick her tongue out at him.
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With her eyes still crossed, she stuck her tongue out and tried to curl it upwards.
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He told him to stick out his tongue and held his hand.
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She stuck out her tongue . ` Anyway, emergency medicine is great stuff.
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If children on the programme stick their tongues out, we don't condemn it.
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Like a child sticking out its tongue , they seemed to be saying, I know something you don't know.
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As I watched it soar over the crossbar,.Jamir stuck his tongue out in ridicule and blew a raspberry.
traffic
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Slachman's stuck in traffic , but I can just about fit you in.
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Then his cab got stuck in traffic , for which I thanked the Lord.
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It follows torrential rain yesterday, which flooded roads, and caused chaos as hundreds of commuters were stuck in traffic jams.
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When you're stuck in traffic with Libby Purves on radio.
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Congestion makes things worse: cars stuck in traffic jams pollute three times as much as those on the open road.
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Says he was stuck in traffic .
wall
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I liked that picture so Marie let me cut it out and stick it on the wall .
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He spotted another phalanx of flies stuck to the walls .
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How do I know that letter you stuck in the wall really was the Professor's?
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Corbeling is where brick sticks out of the wall at the top of the building.
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His face was stuck to the wall .
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When he managed to see again there was a crossbow bolt sticking in the wall just by his ear.
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My plants look real healthy in the sun and the photos Marie's stuck on the wall are all shiny.
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A copy has been stuck up on the wall in the Indymedia office.
■ VERB
decide
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So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years.
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Gast decided to stick around at his own expense and film as much as he could with the fighters.
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In the end, however, Mosbacher decided to stick with the traditional head count.
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At the time, Colavitti decided to stick with aerospace, and the night school degree seemed just a momentary departure.
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Rebelling against the manager that formed them, the girls decided to stick together and make their own choices.
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I decided to stick to my own boyfriend problem and leave others well enough alone.
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Johnson was entranced by the $ 175-per-week salary and decided to stick around.
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Mrs Reagan decided that she would stick to her original decision.
get
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Negotiators got stuck over questions such as how this market was to be monitored and regulated without corruption.
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Finally I got the ax to stick from ten paces.
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I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code.
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She got stuck with a 75.
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You have got just to find some place and stay there and get stuck in.
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There is no computable means of deciding which Turing machines will get stuck in this way.
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The young, less likely to vote, get stuck with the bill.
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Facilities director Rick Harris said he stopped elevator service to make sure no one would get stuck in the cars.
seem
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He seemed to have been stuck in this shabby, overheated room for days.
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President, because none of his mistakes ever seemed to stick to him.
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I ask you. Seem to be stuck here for a week or so.
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Unlike the Republicans, Clinton seems to be sticking to the operational center.
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But once they're there, once you've given them headroom, they seem pretty determined to stick around.
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But few of us seem capable of sticking to them all the time, in every situation, for ever.
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He tried again to look at Jenny, but his eyes seemed to stick somewhere round her neckline.
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The shop seems stuck in time.
tend
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We tended to stick together too, although no-one accused us of being colonists.
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When particles of dirt land on its damp surface, they tend to stick more than on a dry surface.
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The Black girls tended to stick together, but me, I mix with everyone, I don't care.
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Water molecules carry an electric charge and tend to stick to one another.
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When ions floating in the water happen to bump into the hard surface of the crystal, they tend to stick .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (caught) in a cleft stick
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Now the local authorities are caught in a cleft stick, hostages to their own political process.
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So the developing countries are caught in a cleft stick.
be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp
be (stuck) between a rock and a hard place
be stuck for sth
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Most of what they accused him of was true, and Wyden was stuck for an answer.
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Antony for once was stuck for words.
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I was stuck for an answer.
be stuck in a groove
be stuck on sb
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Jane's really stuck on the new boy in her class.
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But my mind was stuck on this Martian theory.
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Co. was stuck on Santa Cruz.
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He must, of course, be stuck on the page where I left him.
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I was afraid I would be stuck on the medicine for ever.
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Now I was stuck on my northernmost hang-up.
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They were stuck on the outside like cheerleaders.
be stuck with sb
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All four of them were stuck with us!
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Chutra and I were stuck with each other like binary stars.
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He sat thinking how he was stuck with her, how there was no privacy in this house for emergency situations.
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I suppose I was stuck with him, like it or not.
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If an organism has haemoglobin, it is stuck with it.
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If she was stuck with wanting a man whose background and conditioning were alien to her, then that was her problem.
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Now they are stuck with those higher prices.
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Rosenberg was stuck with 400 shirts that cost $ 4 each.
be stuck with sth
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We're renting the house, so we're stuck with this ugly wallpaper.
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All four of them were stuck with us!
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Chutra and I were stuck with each other like binary stars.
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He sat thinking how he was stuck with her, how there was no privacy in this house for emergency situations.
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I suppose I was stuck with him, like it or not.
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If an organism has haemoglobin, it is stuck with it.
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If she was stuck with wanting a man whose background and conditioning were alien to her, then that was her problem.
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Now they are stuck with those higher prices.
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Rosenberg was stuck with 400 shirts that cost $ 4 each.
be stuck/held fast
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A character who is held fast can not move or fight, and is treated as prone.
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Balor was struggling and writhing, but his limbs were held fast and only his thick, shapeless body could move.
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Persephone sprang into her arms and was held fast there.
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She tried to pull her hand free, but it was held fast .
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She tried to struggle, but she was held fast .
carrot and stick
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Current government strategy on unemployment has been described fairly aptly as being the carrot and stick approach.
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Headquarters motivates managers to meet targets in time-honoured style: carrot and stick.
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Like a biochemical carrot and stick, these systems generate pleasurable or painful feelings that powerfully guide behavior.
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Much of the success was fuelled by the multinationals responding to the combination of carrot and stick.
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The carrot and stick approach is to do with reward and punishment, incentives and pressures.
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The old carrot and stick method of keeping control is now all stick.
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Your level of control needs to be high enough so that your carrot and stick power matters and is taken seriously by others.
get stuck in/get stuck into sth
get the wrong end of the stick
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Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick. I thought she was leaving him, not the other way round.
keep/stick to the message
put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it
put/stick your head above the parapet
put/stick/get your oar in
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I heard him mention something about organs to another guest so I put my oar in and started such a nice conversation.
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She was talking to me just now, before you put your oar in.
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We were sorting it out quite nicely until you stuck your oar in.
stick out/stand out a mile
stick/poke your nose into sth
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No one wants the government sticking its nose into the personal business of citizens.
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Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?
stick/put etc the knife in/into someone
stick/stand out like a sore thumb
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You can't come to the restaurant dressed in jeans. You'd stick out like a sore thumb.
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For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb.
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Having a whole batch together should make an odd one stick out like a sore thumb.
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Having said that, in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb.
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I mean, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
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There's no cover, and - as happened to me - any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb.
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We stand out like sore thumbs.
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You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform, Charles.
stick/stay in sb's mind
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But it stuck in my mind .
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I think those types of things stick in children's minds , so I didn't want her there.
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It is not surprising that phrases do not stick in the mind .
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It must have stuck in her mind , that an honest person might act out of character when severely threatened.
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Last year, 7-21, that stays in your mind .
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One incident that has always stuck in my mind was when I dove for my foxhole at the opening mortar round.
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There are, as always with the work of Ralph Gibson, images that stick in the mind .
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Yet the one small doubt stuck in her mind like a burr in tweed.
use/wield the big stick
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"What should I do with these?" "Oh, just stick them anywhere."
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Stick this note to Chris's computer so he sees it when he gets back.
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Clark called him "Mule," because he looked like a pack mule, and the name stuck.
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I'm sticking.
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I stuck the pictures in a drawer and forgot all about them.
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It took hours to stick all these photos in my album.
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Paul stuck two pieces of paper together.
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Peter was very hot, and his shirt was sticking to his back.
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Put some butter on the pan so the cookies don't stick .
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She stuck her chewing gum on the bottom of the chair.
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She pressed down the flap of the envelope, but it didn't stick .
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The doctor had to stick a tube down my throat in order to examine my stomach.
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The vase broke into several pieces, but I was able to stick them all back together.
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They stuck pins into a map to show where the enemy's camps were.
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This cupboard door keeps sticking.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And marriage developed everywhere to encourage men to stick around their children.
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I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code.
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It was only a little flurry, but it was wet, clumping gobs of snow that stuck to the windshield.
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Mind you, I don't suppose you would really want to stick them in the top of the Christmas pudding either.
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Teenagers can not wreak that kind of havoc when they are stuck inside.
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The experts avoid sticking their own necks out.
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They announced that they wanted to talk to everyone, and they asked everyone to stick around for a while.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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And a big stick comes in useful too.
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In place of a big stick , his is an approach that seeks to balance many perspectives on the same situation.
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This is the big stick treatment for violent criminals which is traditionally associated with an extreme Right-wing attitude.
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Teddy Roosevelt whittled a big stick and beat on em for six years.
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Monroe doctrine lives on as Bush wields big stick .
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It's called a big stick .
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After the big stick came the carrot: he offered to pay my first month's rent at a hostel he knew.
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Jones carried the big stick , going 3-for-5 and scoring twice.
long
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At Yanto's suggestion they had each gone off and found themselves a long thin stick apiece.
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The tourists who were already there had long plastic sticks they were poking down into the fenced area.
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Tended by a woman with a long stick .
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I poked at its decomposing body with a long driftwood stick , working to turn it over.
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It pulled a long curved stick out of a holster.
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After breakfast the male inmates went outside to the prison yard for exercises, which included jumping over long bamboo sticks .
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From time to time attendants with long sticks would poke and stir to make it burn faster.
old
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Maybe I had exaggerated things and Gilly wasn't such a bad old stick after all.
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We tie up with an old stick and some rope, and no problem.
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Frederick was always such an old stick .
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Me, I stick to my old sticks; and I think that the new breed of carbon-fibre rods are characterless.
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I knew I was taking some rare old stick mentally, though.
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She heard it from that dry old stick , Simpson.
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The old carrot and stick method of keeping control is now all stick.
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Why hadn't Maxie thought of building a new house there, the old stick in the mud?
shooting
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Favourite walking and shooting sticks by the connecting bedroom door.
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One woman has brought the blunt ended equivalent of a shooting stick , which turns out not to be needed.
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She was sitting on a shooting stick .
stout
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The greybeards made a quite unnecessary fuss about this and I was forced to employ my stout stick .
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The employment of a stout stick is recommended.
thin
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At Yanto's suggestion they had each gone off and found themselves a long thin stick apiece.
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They carried thin sticks that may have been riding crops, which they switched against their boots impatiently.
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What was that clutter of thin whitish sticks in one hut?
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When it is quite dry, use a thin stick or toothpick to draw your pattern on the egg in glue.
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In his hands he holds a snuff box, shaped like a small quiver, and a thin stick .
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They guide them with the flick of a thin stick or a gentle word.
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He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect.
walking
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The pensioner was so angry, he tripped up the mugger with his walking stick and grabbed the book back.
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A hand separated itself from the walking stick .
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All they will see is the walking stick .
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Favourite walking and shooting sticks by the connecting bedroom door.
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Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary.
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Hedgerow briars are best left for walking sticks .
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There will be a pole lathe on the go, and the Adams Axeman making walking sticks and baskets.
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She looked across at the half-hidden walking stick again.
white
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All it tells us is that a man walked through the wood and threw a white stick down.
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A neighbor, Boab, helps Sammy paint the white stick he has fashioned from a mop handle.
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He said he saw no sign of a white stick until after the accident when it was seen to be folded up.
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The heat made her white dress stick to her.
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I would feel silly saying the same thing to a white stick !
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More wheelchairs but no white sticks tonight.
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She now had a collapsible white metal stick she used quite defensively when out walking.
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Millions of viewers saw presenter Howard Leader take the tumble wearing dark glasses and clutching a white stick .
wooden
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Read in studio A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick .
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Like ranks of drummers beating upon skulls with wooden sticks .
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The whole squad would line up and hit the new cap's backside with a wooden stick until it became quite painful.
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Skewer 2 beef cubes on each wooden stick .
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Traditional rural dowsers used wooden sticks to locate underground water.
■ NOUN
celery
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Chilli beans Fry one chopped onion and one chopped celery stick in three tablespoons of oil.
cinnamon
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Leave to cool and remove the cinnamon stick .
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Remove cloves, bay leaves and cinnamon sticks .
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Add bay leaves, chili peppers, coriander seed, juniper berries, cinnamon stick , and thyme.
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Some recipes suggest adding a cinnamon stick , whole cloves and / or whole allspice.
cocktail
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Remove the cocktail sticks from the salmon olives and place the olives on top of the sauce.
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For the dragonflies, mould small curved lengths and mark on segments with a cocktail stick .
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Roll the fillets up and secure with a cocktail stick .
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Roll one rasher around each prune and secure with a cocktail stick . 3.
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Mark lines of bandages on to the mummy's limbs and head with a pointed cocktail stick .
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Prop up with a cocktail stick from behind if necessary.
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Spread the skin side of each slice with the mustard, roll up and secure carefully with cocktail sticks .
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Etching - dip a cocktail stick in lemon juice or vinegar and scratch away the colour when the dyed egg is cold.
gear
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And between us, the bloody Rugby World Cup kept falling through the seats to knock my hand from the gear stick .
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Donna grabbed the gear stick , simultaneously pressing hard on the brake.
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In desperation the Minister leaned forward and grabbed the automatic gear stick , throwing it into reverse.
hockey
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Piggie involved hitting a wooden wedge with a type of hockey stick .
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One looked at her and then fell back heavily, flinging her hockey stick to the side.
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Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats, tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure.
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Dan exclaimed; he had been hit in the jaw with a hockey stick , and his lip had swelled.
insect
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To put it another way, ancestors of stick insects that did not resemble sticks did not leave descendants.
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Children admiring Living World stick insects .
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One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.
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Eggs, caterpillars, chrysalids, stick insects and equipment are available for sale from the showroom.
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He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect .
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The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.
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When I was young I was like a stick insect , then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.
shift
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Guys who love the way a stick shift or a remote feels in their hands.
■ VERB
beat
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Buddie had beaten her with a stick until her mouth bled and she could barely stand.
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We fought them for control of the garbage mounds by the North River. Beat them off with sticks .
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When they could not get money from the machine they beat her with sticks .
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My torso and my wrists felt as though Edna had beaten them with sticks .
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McSorley lined it up before beating Potvin on the stick side at 18: 23 in the first for a 1-1 tie.
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The young suspects then allegedly kicked and punched punched the infant and, allegedly, possibly beat him with a stick .
carry
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And he was carrying no thunder-and-fire stick to inflict pain on them.
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Throngs of people moved along the sidewalks carrying walking sticks , packages, umbrellas.
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Bongwater's Ann Magnuson carries the incandescent incense stick for the even.
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They carried thin sticks that may have been riding crops, which they switched against their boots impatiently.
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A small Masai boy, carrying two whittled sticks , joins her and they walk together.
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Jones carried the big stick , going 3-for-5 and scoring twice.
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Burns left the room and returned, carrying a stick .
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As standard, every diver carries a light stick , glowing colours moving around a pinnacle that was previously dived at dusk.
hit
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They hit me with a stick .
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First a student hit the stick and it flew up in the air.
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I remember the teacher who hit me with a stick .
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Then the teacher put the newspaper on top of the stick , smoothed down the paper and hit the stick.
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Because the teacher made the paper smooth before hitting the stick , there was almost no air under the paper.
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Then somebody hit him with a stick while he struggled to get loose of all those hands.
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Ask one of the students to hit the stick .
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Ask the students to guess what will happen if you hit the stick . 3.
hold
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He holds up a stick for all to see.
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The newspaper does not seem to be heavy enough to hold down the stick .
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The boy was making straight for the stone, holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him.
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Hughes held the stick aloft, a coil of silver at its head.
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When you go in and out, you feel like somebody is holding a stick ....
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He holds his ink stick upright.
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He is holding a stick which has feathers attached.
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Each Metropolitan held his locust stick in front of him.
move
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In addition, the elevator may overbalance so that the force needed to move forwards on the stick is abnormally high.
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If this happens, it is important to move the stick forwards sufficiently to ensure that the glider does not re-stall.
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As the wing drops and the spin starts, he move forwards on the stick , leaving the rudder applied.
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They go on jumping and crawling as the King moves the stick .
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As the model rolls from inverted to normal flight, move the throttle stick back to the normal position.
pick
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He picks up sticks and sits down to eat them.
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With his stomach turning, he picked up a stick , which he jammed into the glove.
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She picked up the stick and hurled it, skimming it low over the shallow pools left by the tide.
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I scratched the back of my neck, picked up the cue stick , and tried an easy shot.
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As last year, bin bags and litter picking sticks will be provided.
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He ripped up grass; tore apart moss; picked up pebbles, sticks , and twigs.
place
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What happened? 2. Place the stick back on the table and cover it with the newspaper.
poke
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They poke burning sticks at me.
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Two small boys trapped a crab, repeatedly poking it with a stick until it went belly up and played dead.
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It will then learn to poke sticks in termite mounds when it is hungry.
pull
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He kept pulling on the stick , then swung away and made to carry it off.
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The demonstration may be repeated by pulling the stick out 4-5 inches more.
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It pulled a long curved stick out of a holster.
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Obviously, you pull the cyclic stick back to lower the tail and impart a rearwards force to stop the forwards movement.
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He raised the gun to the back of the Captain's head, imploring him to pull back on the stick .
throw
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The man threw more sticks and it jumped again, ecstatic, diving and swimming, in and out.
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He can hit a thrown ball with a stick of wood.
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Male speaker Hundreds of rioters were throwing sticks and stones and shooting.
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He turned around, threw away the stick , and walked back towards the hospital.
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He had thrown the blood-covered stick into the fire, then washed himself and his clothes.
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Finally he stood upright, cracked his back, and threw the stick into the trash.
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It was cut off, abruptly. probably Simon had thrown a stick for him.
use
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Children, especially boys, will construct a fake gun using anything from sticks to a piece of toast.
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We used a stick or shovel to hit the wire and break the strands apart.
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To tell the truth, I continued to use the stick for longer than was strictly necessary.
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Most of the time, though, we used sticks that my sisters collected from the woods.
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When it is quite dry, use a thin stick or toothpick to draw your pattern on the egg in glue.
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Because he insisted on using a stick shift.
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Similarly, a child at play may use a stick as an aeroplane or a settee as a car.
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Single bamboo canes are also used as rhythm sticks in many parts of the world, including Polynesia and the Amazon Basin.
walk
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He walked with a stick , but sometimes he would throw it away and skip.
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Throngs of people moved along the sidewalks carrying walking sticks , packages, umbrellas.
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It walked with two sticks . ` Ready?
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A walking stick is good for balance in the water and on the arduous grades.
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Made by Brigg Umbrellas, with a handle matching one of the Brigg walking sticks in the King's wardrobe.
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Toasting their successful ascent to the summit, she lifts her flask in the air, and father waves his walking stick .
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With the aid of a silver-mounted walking stick , she was limping; yet her body was still very straight.
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Two walking sticks used to hurt his pride.
wave
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Three men stood in the entrance of the courtyard, waving sticks .
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Two shepherds took off after him, waving their sticks .
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Toasting their successful ascent to the summit, she lifts her flask in the air, and father waves his walking stick .
wield
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Monroe doctrine lives on as Bush wields big stick .
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Shields fired when Kao, who was drunk, advanced at him wielding a stick , authorities said.
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Apart from wielding the stick of trade sanctions - a worrying measure - the main option will be the carrot of cash transfers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (caught) in a cleft stick
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Now the local authorities are caught in a cleft stick, hostages to their own political process.
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So the developing countries are caught in a cleft stick.
be (caught/locked/stuck) in a time warp
be (stuck) between a rock and a hard place
be stuck for sth
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Most of what they accused him of was true, and Wyden was stuck for an answer.
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Antony for once was stuck for words.
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I was stuck for an answer.
be stuck on sb
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Jane's really stuck on the new boy in her class.
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But my mind was stuck on this Martian theory.
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Co. was stuck on Santa Cruz.
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He must, of course, be stuck on the page where I left him.
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I was afraid I would be stuck on the medicine for ever.
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Now I was stuck on my northernmost hang-up.
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They were stuck on the outside like cheerleaders.
be stuck with sb
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All four of them were stuck with us!
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Chutra and I were stuck with each other like binary stars.
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He sat thinking how he was stuck with her, how there was no privacy in this house for emergency situations.
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I suppose I was stuck with him, like it or not.
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If an organism has haemoglobin, it is stuck with it.
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If she was stuck with wanting a man whose background and conditioning were alien to her, then that was her problem.
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Now they are stuck with those higher prices.
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Rosenberg was stuck with 400 shirts that cost $ 4 each.
be stuck with sth
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We're renting the house, so we're stuck with this ugly wallpaper.
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All four of them were stuck with us!
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Chutra and I were stuck with each other like binary stars.
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He sat thinking how he was stuck with her, how there was no privacy in this house for emergency situations.
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I suppose I was stuck with him, like it or not.
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If an organism has haemoglobin, it is stuck with it.
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If she was stuck with wanting a man whose background and conditioning were alien to her, then that was her problem.
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Now they are stuck with those higher prices.
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Rosenberg was stuck with 400 shirts that cost $ 4 each.
be stuck/held fast
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A character who is held fast can not move or fight, and is treated as prone.
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Balor was struggling and writhing, but his limbs were held fast and only his thick, shapeless body could move.
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Persephone sprang into her arms and was held fast there.
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She tried to pull her hand free, but it was held fast .
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She tried to struggle, but she was held fast .
carrot and stick
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Current government strategy on unemployment has been described fairly aptly as being the carrot and stick approach.
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Headquarters motivates managers to meet targets in time-honoured style: carrot and stick.
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Like a biochemical carrot and stick, these systems generate pleasurable or painful feelings that powerfully guide behavior.
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Much of the success was fuelled by the multinationals responding to the combination of carrot and stick.
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The carrot and stick approach is to do with reward and punishment, incentives and pressures.
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The old carrot and stick method of keeping control is now all stick.
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Your level of control needs to be high enough so that your carrot and stick power matters and is taken seriously by others.
get stuck in/get stuck into sth
get the wrong end of the stick
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Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick. I thought she was leaving him, not the other way round.
keep/stick to the message
put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it
put/stick your head above the parapet
put/stick/get your oar in
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I heard him mention something about organs to another guest so I put my oar in and started such a nice conversation.
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She was talking to me just now, before you put your oar in.
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We were sorting it out quite nicely until you stuck your oar in.
stick out/stand out a mile
stick/poke your nose into sth
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No one wants the government sticking its nose into the personal business of citizens.
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Or maybe they resented a stranger poking his nose into their affairs?
stick/put etc the knife in/into someone
stick/stand out like a sore thumb
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You can't come to the restaurant dressed in jeans. You'd stick out like a sore thumb.
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For these reasons feminist values stand out like a sore thumb.
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Having a whole batch together should make an odd one stick out like a sore thumb.
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Having said that, in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb.
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I mean, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
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There's no cover, and - as happened to me - any stranger sticks out like a sore thumb.
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We stand out like sore thumbs.
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You stick out like a sore thumb in that ghastly uniform, Charles.
stick/stay in sb's mind
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But it stuck in my mind .
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I think those types of things stick in children's minds , so I didn't want her there.
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It is not surprising that phrases do not stick in the mind .
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It must have stuck in her mind , that an honest person might act out of character when severely threatened.
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Last year, 7-21, that stays in your mind .
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One incident that has always stuck in my mind was when I dove for my foxhole at the opening mortar round.
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There are, as always with the work of Ralph Gibson, images that stick in the mind .
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Yet the one small doubt stuck in her mind like a burr in tweed.
use/wield the big stick
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a walking stick
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Stick insects look like sticks and so are saved from being eaten by birds.
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He didn't half go into him with his stick .
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He dipped the oil stick in again.
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Julitis disgustedly cleaned it frorn her shoe with a stick .
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The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work.
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Using his thick bill, he played with the leaves, sticks, and grass stems at the edge of his nest.