I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be trapped in a cycle
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The country is trapped in a cycle of poverty and under-development.
be trapped in the wreckage
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He was trapped in the wreckage for almost seven hours.
booby trap
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He lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast.
death trap
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A car with tires in this condition is simply a death trap.
radar trap
speed trap
tourist trap
walking into a trap
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He was fairly certain now that he was walking into a trap , and wished he’d come armed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
offside
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Shearer beat the offside trap and squared the ball for Mitchell to tap in. 3-1 to Town.
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Two minutes from the interval a perfect through ball from Sheedy enabled Peacock to beat the offside trap .
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Well-organised Cambridge tried to kill the game and Boro were naive when caught out so often by the offside trap .
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When they showed any urgency, they made Celtic's offside trap look vulnerable.
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He curled a 20-yard chip past Walkerafter springing Tottenham's offside trap to pounce on Ebbrell's clever through-ball.
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However, failing to operate a successful offside trap , the Whaddon defence saw Combes walk in goal number three.
■ NOUN
bear
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As he reached for the phone, he realized what he was doing-he was placing his foot squarely in a bear trap .
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You step into a bear trap covered with snow.
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Like the jaws of a bear trap .
booby
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He laid booby traps in his house, and built lookout posts for anyone who came on to his property.
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And of course, that little shit has no right to try and ambush me or get me with a booby trap !
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Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
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Within the first 10 minutes, we had 6 guys wounded from different booby traps , mainly hand grenades.
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If it really was a bomb, unzipping the cover would almost certainly trip a booby trap .
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These bodies were like booby traps .
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Detectives want to establish whether Mr Jowett, 43, was killed by a booby trap or in an elaborate suicide.
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We must have moved all of a foot and a half before we hit a booby trap .
death
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The whole lake was a death trap for birds.
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Every area he tells us is secure turns out to be a death trap .
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You've made a bloody death trap on the stairs.
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The entrance to de Raimes' castle was a death trap , no less.
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Any room with sealed-unit double glazing and only an opening top light could be a death trap .
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Fire broke out in an old, litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished.
debt
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Susan George reveals the dynamic behind the debt trap .
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It became a more serious potential debt trap than running up bills at retailers.
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Job fears and the mortgage debt trap are failing to halt the housing slump.
door
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They just disappeared, as if they'd popped into trap doors and been spirited away.
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A dim square fell out the window and lay in the snow, a trap door to other; sunnier times.
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We had the trap door , the back door.
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It also has trap doors in the stage for more theatrical magic.
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The trap door was under her feet, but what good was that?
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Clayt opened the trap door to a fight.
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The only way into his protective case was through a little trap door he kept locked night and day.
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Like a magic show: invisible wires and secret trap doors .
liquidity
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The liquidity trap was explained in Chapter 21.
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The liquidity trap occurs where the demand for money becomes perfectly interest-elastic at some very low interest rate.
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This is known as the liquidity trap .
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In retrospect, it might be argued that the significance of the liquidity trap was over-emphasised.
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Modern econometric work has found no conclusive evidence for the existence of a liquidity trap .
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Keynes himself saw the liquidity trap as merely a special case: the case where the economy is in deep recession.
poverty
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This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap .
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Before 1988 the implicit tax rates associated with the poverty trap were also, in some cases, greater than 100%.
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This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered.
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It claimed 1.25 million people could be caught in the poverty trap .
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Caught in the poverty trap , they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures.
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There is no single point in the income scale where the poverty trap begins to operate.
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But they are caught in the poverty trap: they can not afford dams and irrigation systems.
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Many of them are capable of organising their lives with dignity but others fall into football's in-built poverty trap .
radar
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And the beam can't be spotted by drivers who use radar trap detectors.
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At some radar traps , nearly 80 percent of speeding tickets went to out-of-state drivers.
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I was pinched for dangerous driving last month, in a radar trap .
speed
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Call it the most expensive speed trap in the world.
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The plates are designed to foil police speed traps .
unemployment
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So could her friends Michelle, Lenny, Tony, Sue a whole line of people caught in the unemployment trap .
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This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered.
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The unemployment trap has been substantially eased and the simplification of social security has had major effects.
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This has led a number of commentators to argue that the unemployment trap is now of little importance to the real world.
■ VERB
avoid
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A few books have avoided the trap .
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John Champagne and Bob Guadiana avoided this trap .
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During the next few months and years, we must avoid continuing in the trap that we were in before.
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Anderson combines affection and horror in his version of the seventies while avoiding the trap of nostalgia.
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To be fair to the tourists they appear to be avoiding that trap as the days trickle by before the Kandy Test.
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Dole was clearly trying to avoid the trap in which former President Bush found himself after violating the tax vow.
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Ronell avoids the trap by proceeding in ever-decreasing circles - or fractal geometry, as it is now known.
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To avoid this trap , pick from the following list of ten top orders or invent your own.
bait
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There is no need to bait the trap in any way.
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That, she said later, was how life baited the trap .
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Not only are they free, but one dead dolphin can bait over 350 traps .
catch
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Finally, after three months of effort, we caught Poppy in the trap .
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One day Johnny Appleseed came upon a wolf that had been caught in a trap .
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She sees a person caught in the ego traps which the world sets for the unwary.
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Be careful of getting caught in the trap of total involvement with your computer.
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She knew she was caught in a vicious trap , sliding down a slippery spiral.
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I suspected they were pack rats because they were too smart to get themselves caught in the traps I set for them.
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It claimed 1.25 million people could be caught in the poverty trap .
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Coyotes chew the leg off a partner caught in a leg-hold trap .
escape
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If heat is applied, the electron may be able to escape from the deep trap .
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The Smiths have thus far managed to escape this trap but just how is a matter of some debate.
fall
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I trust that I will not fall into the same trap !
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I tried to empathize with their own differing emotional reactions and the fact that they were falling into their own traps again.
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Don't fall into that trap .
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One who thinks she fell into that trap is 76-year-old Josephine Woods.
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But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission.
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Journalists can fall into the trap of being hypercritical.
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During the 90s Washington fell into the trap of allowing events to dictate the relationship, with increasingly destabilising results.
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When we tie it to jobs, or to survival needs, we fall into the trap of mechanistic literacy.
lay
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He laid booby traps in his house, and built lookout posts for anyone who came on to his property.
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Trying to find out for certain if you were the burglar, and laying a little trap for you if you were.
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He informed the Sheriffs of his planned meeting, and helped lay another trap to make the final arrests.
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And the speaker may be totally unaware of laying a trap .
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There were months of planning, false trails were laid , tests and traps set up and sprung.
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Clare wouldn't put it past Sam to use a rat to lay a trap for her.
set
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Mercifully, he was setting up a honey trap for Jim.
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He set the traps carefully under mossy logs, under grass overhanging like curtains along steep banks, and in brush piles.
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Beatrix had set a trap for Maurice and he had walked straight into it.
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You can also talk about the people who set the trap .
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As he waited, he ran through the reasons why Newley was unlikely to have set up a trap .
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The future is inexorable for all of them; for some it is set like a trap .
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She sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household, family and friends.
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It may be necessary to set a trap for him.
shut
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Usually Gloria told her to shut her trap .
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He didn't annoy her and she shut her almighty trap .
spring
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Arrange a net to entangle game when it springs the trap .
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At the same instant, the uniformed regulars from the North decided to spring their trap .
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It was then that he finally sprang his trap .
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He sprang traps and ambushes on the Witch King's forces.
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He curled a 20-yard chip past Walkerafter springing Tottenham's offside trap to pounce on Ebbrell's clever through-ball.
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On the one hand, Jaq must seem capable of irony and flexible tolerance - perhaps only soas to spring a trap .
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Will you spring the time trap ?
walk
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But, this time, she was not going to walk straight into the trap .
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I feel rather that we would be walking straight into a trap .
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Going back there would be walking straight into a trap .
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He was fairly certain now that he was walking into a trap , and wished he'd come armed.
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Chambers had freely walked into the trap , now she would spring it.
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Instantly, fear welled up in him again, and he realised that he had walked into a trap .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fall into a trap/pitfall
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Now he had fallen into a trap which the greenest copper would have avoided.
lay plans/a trap etc
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And the speaker may be totally unaware of laying a trap.
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Clare wouldn't put it past Sam to use a rat to lay a trap for her.
set a trap
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The cheaters were caught when one teacher set a trap by casually leaving a copy of the test on her desk.
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Beatrix had set a trap for Maurice and he had walked straight into it.
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It may be necessary to set a trap for him.
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Or, you can set traps for them to prevent then from reaching the pots to lay their eggs.
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She sets a trap and sets off a series of events that entangle household, family and friends.
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She must remember to tell Mrs Cooke to set a trap.
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So Gharr no only had Mala but also knew our pod and had set a trap for me.
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They are setting a trap for me, she decided.
shut your mouth/face/trap!
spring a trap
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He sprang traps and ambushes on the Witch King's forces.
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On the one hand, Jaq must seem capable of irony and flexible tolerance - perhaps only soas to spring a trap.
the poverty trap
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Before 1988 the implicit tax rates associated with the poverty trap were also, in some cases, greater than 100%.
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But they are caught in the poverty trap: they can not afford dams and irrigation systems.
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Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures.
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It claimed 1.25 million people could be caught in the poverty trap.
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There is no single point in the income scale where the poverty trap begins to operate.
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This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered.
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This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I didn't take the money with me, because I was worried it might be a trap .
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If we're lucky, the thief will fall right into our trap .
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Sensing the lawyer's trap , Horvath refused to answer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But trappers will keep tabs on the extra traps until February, officials said.
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He informed the Sheriffs of his planned meeting, and helped lay another trap to make the final arrests.
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The sun was moving across the sky and we had almost forgotten to check our traps.
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They rolled faster and faster, a steel trap of locomotion and churning rhythms, down the hill.
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This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap .
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To cap it off, the last but one trap contained a ten pounder.
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Usually Gloria told her to shut her trap .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
air
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The pollution is worst during winter, when thermal inversions trap the warmer polluted air above the city.
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The guard hairs are hollow, trapping air within and between them, and the underfur also traps air.
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Dacron Hollofil: bonded polyester, each fibre has a hollow core trapping still air and aiding warmth.
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Dacron Hollofil: Bonded polyester from Dupont, each fibre having a hollow core which traps air and increases warmth value.
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The ice is fickle, sometimes weakened by sunlight, or corroded by trapped air .
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It is a very warm fabric, as the construction traps a lot of air .
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As you breathe out you will trap some of this air in this mask and slowly breathe it back in.
body
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The pistol had jerked from his hand and was trapped under his body .
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You know there is a gay man trapped in her body !
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Something had been trapped underneath the body .
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His mind, alert, was trapped inside a reluctant body .
booby
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So that squad was ordered to stay in place: We figured the whole area was booby-trapped .
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The gooks would booby-trap heavily traveled areas.
car
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Fuel spilled and ignited, burning to death 11 passengers who were trapped in the leading car .
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The kids were trapped in the car for several hours until the Mounties arrived.
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I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time.
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At clinic defenses I saw doctors and patients trapped inside cars in the sweltering heat, surrounded by violent antiabortion demonstrators.
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She was trapped between the car and a hedge.
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Two men who were trapped atop their car for more than a hour were rescued by a National Guard helicopter.
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The woman was trapped in the car and found to be dead by emergency teams.
heat
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As levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane increase, the greenhouse effect will trap increasing amounts of heat .
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Many scientists blame the warming on industrial pollutants that trap infrared heat in the atmosphere rather than letting it escape into space.
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The walls trapped the heat and reflected it back.
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As the quantity of gases increases, more heat is trapped .
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They act like a greenhouse, trapping the sun's heat within the atmosphere.
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Some trapped heat is necessary to sustain life, but excessive accumulation can lead to warming.
poverty
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He must confront a severe economic crisis: 7m of the country's 12m population are trapped in poverty .
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In short, it was the poorer sections of the working class who were trapped in poverty with little prospect of escape.
water
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The dams also render the animals easy prey for hunters and trap them when the water is drained for irrigation.
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The dam trapped sediments, and water releases fluctuated wildly, depending on hydroelectric-power needs.
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The trapped water pools and backs up under the shingles, where it can leak into the house.
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They will help prevent trapped water from going up and under the shingles.
■ VERB
become
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I had become trapped in the Black-White duality.
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Rocky and shallow coastlines create the most spectacular pools, where small seaside animals become temporarily trapped in these natural aquariums.
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We become trapped by our dexterity in doing so.
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They become trapped within the theories and procedures that they have been taught, unable to break out of those frameworks.
feel
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Suddenly she felt as if she was trapped in a terrifying maze, not knowing which way to turn.
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Many employees in bureaucratic governments feel trapped .
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Your face feels as if it's trapped in a dwindling pocket of air by your limbs.
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Its small size and subtropical climate made me feel like I was trapped in a steam room.
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She had felt trapped by the old mesh of loyalty and shame.
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Today she had something of her own that she wanted to do and she felt trapped .
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But they also feel trapped because of their fear.
remain
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The anniversary had remained trapped in the unconscious, never reflected on.
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It can opt for the paralysis of inaction and, thus, remain trapped in a crisis of belief and fear.
try
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The tokens were not of bondage, no one was trying to trap me, to possess me, to take me over.
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We tried trapping him every way we could think of.
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The reality is a slow moving animal that you have to try hard to be trapped by.
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So many times when you would not believe me, when you tried to trap we with your questions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the poverty trap
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Before 1988 the implicit tax rates associated with the poverty trap were also, in some cases, greater than 100%.
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But they are caught in the poverty trap: they can not afford dams and irrigation systems.
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Caught in the poverty trap, they are unable to make the savings necessary for business ventures.
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It claimed 1.25 million people could be caught in the poverty trap.
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There is no single point in the income scale where the poverty trap begins to operate.
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This is likely to be particularly serious if either the poverty trap or the unemployment trap is encountered.
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This is the phenomenon generally known as the poverty trap.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Greenhouse gases trap heat in the earth's atmosphere.
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Police have the man trapped inside a bar on the city's southside.
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Police have the man trapped inside the bar.
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The men were trapped at a road block near the junction of I-95 and Route 128.
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Workers were trapped in the ship's engine room by the fire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, one photo shows a large object that resembles an iceberg trapped in solid sea ice.
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I meant at least to insulate the nest with some polystyrene ceiling tiles, but I was afraid of trapping the animal inside.
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Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, each molecule trapping 25 times as much heat radiation as one molecule of carbon dioxide.
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Some trapped heat is necessary to sustain life, but excessive accumulation can lead to warming.
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The pollution is worst during winter, when thermal inversions trap the warmer polluted air above the city.
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Then the Eustachian tube collapsed and the material was trapped.
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You know there is a gay man trapped in her body!