I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a useful tip
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Their website has some useful tips on selling your home.
be tipped as sb's successor (= be said to be a possible or likely successor )
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When Tizard was about to retire as chairman, Cockcroft was tipped as his successor.
filter tip
rubbish tip/dump (= a place to take rubbish )
the tip of an island (= the thin pointed end of an island )
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We live on the northernmost tip of the island of Barbados.
tip sheet
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a tip sheet for private investors
tipping point
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
handy
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All it takes is some imagination to think up handy tips to help other producers.
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This is a handy tip for setting a home-built kite bridle.
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On page 26 we suggest handy tips for teaching her to dress herself.
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Any handy tips for good, strong growth, please?
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The associated language analysis is useful as a reference work and set of handy tips .
hot
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McGrath has been advised to go ... after all, he's a hot tip to win the thing.
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Find something you've forgotten Don't give up if you can't remember where you saw that hot tip last week.
northern
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The ramshackle bus-boat back to Tekek around the northern tip of the island takes three hours, the same as the walk.
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But the old pier was built on top of the northern tip , and the coral below died, he said.
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Seven ruff, without as yet their elaborate courtship adornments, fed at the northern tip of a tyke.
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The northern tip of the bay lies in the Lake District National Park.
southern
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Nature was given its due, but only at the southern tip of the marsh.
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It was hazy; they reached the southern tip of Nova Scotia.
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Pirates in fast boats have tried to board ships off Bab el-Mandeb in the Red Sea's southern tip .
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The boat floated off the southern tip of Manhattan.
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Westwards, the road follows a tortuous route towards Capo Spartivento on the southern tip of the island.
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The southern tip is designated as a national nature reserve.
top
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Such tips were conical in shape, their height determined by the ease with which material could be moved to the top .
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Card Watch, the banking industry's plastic card fraud prevention campaign, issues top tips for travelling abroad.
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Using your thumbs alternately, stroke down the bridge of the nose from the top to the tip .
useful
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I discovered this to be a useful tip , but not when it came to long-distance telephone calls.
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Anyway, you really should have just taken the useful tips from his lecture and let the rest slide.
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Here is a very useful tip .
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Both are full of useful tips on bringing about organizational change.
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It also contains a record of races and also distance &038; metric conversions plus many useful tips .
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A useful tip is to make sure that no more than two brandy snaps are baked on each tray.
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The useful tips and good advice really came in handy-despite my years of experience.
■ NOUN
felt
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The selected area of a faced sample or hand specimen must be marked with water insoluble felt tip pen before cutting.
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She presses harder on the felt tip .
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Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon, or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters.
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The shock of the new is techno-brutalism and the medium is the felt tip .
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At later stages a thick crayon and a large felt tip suited particular areas of marking.
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Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child's been scribbling on with a black felt tip pen?
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Mark out brick lines with a felt tip pen.
pen
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The selected area of a faced sample or hand specimen must be marked with water insoluble felt tip pen before cutting.
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Get the notes typewritten using a new ribbon, or copy them out in black felt tip pen in large capital letters.
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Is it a 50 watt bulb that a child's been scribbling on with a black felt tip pen ?
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Mark out brick lines with a felt tip pen .
rubbish
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The device is being used at landfill rubbish tips and can tell scientists within minutes precisely what's going on underground.
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During those sixty seconds of biological time, Modern Man has made a rubbish tip of Paradise.
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Trashing lives At night on the city rubbish tip in La Paz, strange things start to happen.
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Municipal rubbish tips are some of the most important feeding areas for gulls, crows, vultures and kites.
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Jones had tried to cover his tracks by disposing of some of the apparatus on a rubbish tip .
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The time has come to find a solution to prevent Britain becoming one big, dangerous rubbish tip .
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With this rubbish tip of information she then came to me to ask how she could write it up into a dissertation.
wing
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After all, what's a wing tip and a Continent between friends?
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Wings must include the entire wing with skin and muscle intact, but the wing tip may be removed. 4.
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New fibreglass wing tips and dorsal fin additions were attached.
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He was in white ducks, brown and white wing tips , and a yellow silk sport shirt.
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Remove the wing tips and reserve with the neck and gizzard for a stock.
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Her leg is broken, and the wing tip ! but not badly.
■ VERB
follow
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What follows is just the tip of the legislative iceberg which has affected local government in the past few years.
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But you can personalize your message by following these tips .
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When making wraps at home, the following tips will simplify rolling or wrapping these scrumptious square meals.
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The following tips may help: 1.
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The following tips will help you make traveling with your child work.
give
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They might even give them a tip .
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Can you give me some tips on how to control myself? &038;.
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She understood and gave a generous tip .
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At her place, she gives me a good tip .
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If you are going to eat alfresco then I would give you two tips .
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But let me just give you a tip .
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I'd love a true professional to give me some tips , particularly on which brands are best.
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Q: Can you give us some beauty tips ?
help
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All it takes is some imagination to think up handy tips to help other producers.
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In order of importance, these are the tips that helped me: 1.
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These tips are intended to help , but should not be regarded as foolproof.
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These tips also help prevent heat exhaustion, only several cases of which advance to potentially deadly heat stroke at the Canyon.
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Our expert's tips will help you to cover your roots.
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I hope that this tip might help anyone else who is having Panasonic v Windows problems.
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The following tips will help you make traveling with your child work.
offer
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As a way of tackling the major problem of making something essentially static into something always forward-moving, I offer this tip .
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He offered me the tips of his fingers.
touch
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He touched it - the tips of his fingers made contact with the pale face.
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I touched the tip of the rag through my skirt and felt it move against my skin.
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He neutralized the obscenity by touching the tip of one finger.
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I touched the needle tip of it and wished I hadn't.
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Yet they have only touched the tip of the iceberg, especially with respect to old people in their own homes or private care.
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I touch the tip of the stave to the centre of her forehead.
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Ronnie leaned forward and touched the pink tip with her lips, kissing it gently then moistening it with her tongue.
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To touch its burning tip will give love life.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hot tip
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Find something you've forgotten Don't give up if you can't remember where you saw that hot tip last week.
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McGrath has been advised to go ... after all, he's a hot tip to win the thing.
tip/swing the balance
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Your letter of recommendation swung the balance in his favor.
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Chernobyl had further tipped the balance .
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His influence on deputies is significant, but it will be Mr Yeltsin's performance that will swing the balance .
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Perhaps remorse at having joined it had tipped the balance of Fred's mind.
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Teachers may try to tip the balance about this Englishness.
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The nature of his choice or the terms in which it is expressed may then tip the balance .
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The thought or feeling tipped the balance , made the difference.
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Vigorous efforts were made to tip the balance more in favour of those with greater needs.
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What tipped the balance against that was my continuing dreadful performance in the classroom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A 15% tip is considered usual if the service was good.
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a 15% tip
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a leaflet containing some tips on how to take better photos
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A service charge is included on the bill, so tipping isn't necessary.
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Acting on a tip , police went to the motel and arrested Upton.
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Doctor Gordon felt my neck with the tips of his fingers.
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Here's a good tip : if you spill red wine on your carpet, pour salt on it to remove it.
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It was a very nice house until they moved in and turned it into a tip .
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The boy carried my suitcases up to my room and then stood waiting for a tip .
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The village is on the southern tip of the island.
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We finished our lunch and left a tip on the table for the waiter.
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Your room's an absolute tip !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As I raised my tips and slid off the lift, I wondered how I was going to get down the mountain.
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His pale golden, ringed tail hung down and sometimes the tip of it twitched.
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Please keep those questions and tips coming.
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The very tip of the finger began to oscillate.
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Viewers sometimes phone in news tips.
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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Often, before the arrival of the hunters, somebody tipped off the clansmen that the authorities were on the way.
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The police were tipped off to his whereabouts, then locked him in the Tower of London.
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The person who did tip off the authorities turned it down.
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According to an upright government scientist, who just rnight have been tipped off by a private expert.
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The bomber turned informer and tipped off police.
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The illegal trading by Kathleen Lane and the five others she tipped off began Oct. 11, 1994.
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Yesterday, the police denied that drug dealers were tipped off before the operation.
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They were arrested after police were tipped off by local residents, who say they've since been threatened and intimidated.
over
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He went on to experiment with how far a branch could be extended in any one direction before the tree tipped over .
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The baby was sleeping in a bassinet the boys allegedly tipped over .
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There was the carton of juice tipped over outside the hide and the paper from the biscuits.
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She warns of thirst for knowledge tipping over into dangerous greed, and of youthful promise lost for one fatal flaw.
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Be careful not to apply too much cyclic, however, since this may still cause the model to tip over .
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The other children fled in terror as the hay caught fire when the candle tipped over .
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It tipped over , sloshing liquid across the photograph of himself astride a motorcycle.
up
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Her face tipped up , radiant.
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Then they tip up the ladle and proceed to the next mold.
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The task is to collect coins and to tip up the tortoises and spiders that crawl out of the pipes along the platforms.
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As the bed tips up and down, the body shifts as it can not in the iron lung.
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The table top is tipped up into the picture plane more sharply even than in a painting by Cézanne.
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I teetered across, on the edge of tipping up , a tightrope walk between panic and despair.
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It could tip up at just the wrong moment.
widely
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But it's now widely tipped as one labour can win.
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The chief architect of the document was vice chairman Makoto Tanabe, who was widely tipped to succeed Doi as leader.
■ NOUN
balance
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The political balance in Britain tipped quite markedly at that time, with important implications for social policy.
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As wheat cultivation developed and different strains of wheat became avail-able, the balance tipped away from rye.
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Add an engine which offers significantly better straight-line performance than the Corrado's and the balance starts to tip in favour of the Calibra.
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But the balance of power appears tipped in his favor.
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Given this choice, he reckons there's a balance to be tipped , in favour of the opportunities and against the dangers.
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The balance might well be tipped by forensic evidence.
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He almost lost his balance and tipped the chair over as he scrambled back down to floor level with it.
chair
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There was a crash as the big man stood up, tipping his chair over.
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That you tip back on your chair like that?
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He almost lost his balance and tipped the chair over as he scrambled back down to floor level with it.
hat
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Thrifty, hardworking, unemotional, they tipped their hats to no one.
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Stephen slid him a coin, the doorman tipped his hat with a smile.
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The watchman came out from his hut, tipped his hat , and opened the gate.
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Johnnie Walker tips his hat , smirks and hurries westward off the shelf.
head
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Resting his elbows on the deck behind him, he tipped his head back and closed his eyes.
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He stepped back and put his thumbs in his pockets and tipped his head up at me.
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When she laughs, my Auntie Muriel tips her head back and opens her mouth wide.
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Mr Mitchell had been tipped as the next head of Deutsche's investment-banking unit.
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She tipped her head towards the right-hand passage and lifted an interrogative eyebrow.
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The fingers of one hand curled around her neck, his thumb angled beneath her jaw to tip back her head .
police
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The bomber turned informer and tipped off police .
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Tug's dad is out to get him after he tipped off the police about his shady escapades.
scale
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Thus can a minuscule particle tip the scales one way or another.
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Second, the Constitution tips the scales in favor of the individual over the state in highly personal matters.
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Tall and stately, fairly bursting from her corset, she sometimes tipped the scales at over 200 pounds.
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Mr Bates thinks the disappearance of November's protest vote could tip the scales his way.
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This guy tips the scale at 400 pounds.
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For geophysicists in general, it is yet another chunk of evidence tipping the scales toward an integrated view of the earth.
wink
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So d'you think you could tip her the wink an' tell her I've got back early?
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Just tip us the wink when I come in.
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And they'd know if Keith was tipping the wink .
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And I can't tip the wink to Stephen.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hot tip
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Find something you've forgotten Don't give up if you can't remember where you saw that hot tip last week.
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McGrath has been advised to go ... after all, he's a hot tip to win the thing.
push/tip sb over the brink
tip/swing the balance
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Your letter of recommendation swung the balance in his favor.
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Chernobyl had further tipped the balance .
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His influence on deputies is significant, but it will be Mr Yeltsin's performance that will swing the balance .
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Perhaps remorse at having joined it had tipped the balance of Fred's mind.
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Teachers may try to tip the balance about this Englishness.
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The nature of his choice or the terms in which it is expressed may then tip the balance .
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The thought or feeling tipped the balance , made the difference.
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Vigorous efforts were made to tip the balance more in favour of those with greater needs.
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What tipped the balance against that was my continuing dreadful performance in the classroom.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A gust of wind tipped the truck over.
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Don't tip the chair back so far.
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How much should I tip the driver?
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Investigators were tipped to watch for two men driving a horse van.
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It's usual to tip about 15% in restaurants.
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She tipped the taxi-driver.
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She weighed out the flour and tipped it into the bowl.
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The canoe tipped and we fell in the water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also tipped by Capel were Capita, up 5p at 417p, and Dorling Kindersley, 8p better at 253p.
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She smooths down her hair, tipping the beret back to its original angle.
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What he was looking for was something very small if he was prepared to tip out tiny containers.
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With this in mind, I would appreciate any fuel economy tips you can offer and specifically: 1.