Collocation Flashcards
Foreseeable
Foreseeable future
Golden
Golden opportunity
Lame
Lame excuse
Radical
Radical change
Recent
Recent past
Small talk
To make small talk
A great speech
Delivered a great speech
A conversation going
To keep a conversation going
Chat
To have a chat
Debate
To hold debates
Presentations
To make presentations
Column
Gossip column
Debate
Intelectual debate
Presentations.
Professional presentation
Idea
Controversial idea
Wi-Fi connection
Dodgy WiFi connection
Chat
To have a chat
Conversation
To make ( initiate ) To have
A conversation
To keep sth going (the conversation )
Debate
To have To hold (formal )
A debate about sth
To stimulate debate
gossip
To have a gossipy about sth
rumours
To start / to create
Presentation
To give
To make
a presentation
Speech
To give
To make
To prepare
To deliver
A speech
Statement
To make a statement
1) Official verbal report
2) showing your beliefs / principles
Talk
To have a talk
To give a talk
To make small talk
Discussion
To lead a discussion
Complication
To run into encounter a complication
To come to terms with sth
the loss of your wife .
To accept / be used to some from
Of tragedy
To join in a activity
To take part in a activity (transitive)
To play a part in a activity
To participate in an activity transitive
To play
By the rules
To take heart
Don’t worry
Take heart everything will be better soon.
Don’t worry just have a little confidence
Difference
To make a difference
To pour money into sth
To invest a lot in sth
To be taken for granted
To be taken advantage of
When you’re not appreciated for all the work you do
To be deluged with work
To be snowed under with work
Be up to one’s ears in work
To have a row with sb
Sth/sb makes you flip =angry
To seethe with rage / anger
To reach the end of one’s tether = I reached = the limit
To lose one’s cool = suddenly explode in public
Mystery
Create a mystery
Old people
keep up with
Old people
keep up with the times
It’s time to call it a
Let’s call it a
It’s time to call it a day
Let’s call it a day
Stop working for the day and resume tomorrow
Sth marks the end of
Sth marks the end of an era
Sth / sb was before my time
Popular before I was born
Sth is as old as the hills
Very very old
A few home
A few home truths
Life
Life expectancy
To reach
An age one’s 90 birthday
Achieve
Achieve a goal
To drive
Sb to do
To push
Sb to do
To light
To light fire with sth (propelant)
I.e. gasoline
To decide
To decide that + clause (s+v)
To achieve
To achieve a goal
On the grounds of
Because
Delegate
Responsibility to sb
Injury
To suffer
Sustain
Receive Injuries
(Get)
More often than
More often than not
To go mad
Became addicted
To get a whiff
To get a whiff of cake
A quick smell
Explosive
Explosive diarrhea
To makeshift
To makeshift — a solution
— tent / shelter
