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What are popular collocations in English?



 
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What are popular collocations in English? #1 (permalink) Mon Nov 21, 2005 0:32 am   What are popular collocations in English?
 

could you please site some famous collocations
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Collocations #2 (permalink) Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:21 am   Collocations
 

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bread and butter
green fields
Great American Novel
rosy-fingered dawn
suffering Jesus!
April showers
a bad break
international relations


etc.
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Collocations #3 (permalink) Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:31 am   Collocations
 

Some collocations with the adjective 'heavy':

Heavy drinker/smoker (not strong drinker/smoker)
Heavy traffic
Heavy rain
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Collocations #4 (permalink) Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:53 am   Collocations
 

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heavy duty
heavy heart
heavy meal
heavy weight
heavy breathing
heavy eyelids
heavy feet
heavy handed
heavy snowfall
heavy artillery
heavy thinker
heavy dose
heavy industry
heavy blow
heavy work
heavy depression
heavy sleeper
heavy trading
heavy opposition
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Heavy glow #5 (permalink) Sat Dec 03, 2005 14:40 pm   Heavy glow
 

Heavy glow (coined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers).
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