a book

 When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life 

bowling

bowling

 an indoor game in which you roll a large heavy ball along a wooden track in order to knock down a group of pins

fire extinguisher

fire extinguisher 

 a metal container with water or chemicals in it, used for stopping small fires

like a lamb to the slaughter

like a lamb to the slaughter 

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used when someone is going to do something dangerous, but they do not realize it or have no choice 

Police Collocations

Police Collocations

• search warrant
• crime scene
• riot police
• roadblock
• spike belt
• undercover police
• forensic investigation
• homicide detective
• without resistance
• composite sketch

slip one's mind

slip one's  mind =go (right/clean) out of somebody's mind 

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something goes out of your mind, you forget it, especially because you are very busy 

I'm sorry. So much has been happening, it went clean out of my mind
I 

t had completely slipped her mind that Dave still had a key to the house

eating her words

I knew when Sandra told the lie that she would be eating her words later 

eating her words ==admitting to her untrue claims

is out to lunch

 Everyone knows that our math teacher is out to lunch

 is out to lunch==behaves in a crazy manner

compost

 compost 

a mixture of decayed plants, leaves etc used to improve the quality of soil

black sheep

black sheep 

someone who is regarded by other members of their family or group as a failure or embarrassment 

Amy's always been the black sheep of the family 

tow

 tow  

to pull a vehicle or ship along behind another vehicle, using a rope or chain 

 Our car had been towed away 

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention 

a ladder in my tights

a ladder in my tights  

a long thin hole in stockings or tights where some stitches have broken = run American English 

spiral staircase

spiral staircase   

a set of stairs arranged in a circular pattern so that they go around a central point as they get higher

staircase

staircase 

 a set of stairs inside a building with its supports and the side parts that you hold on to

escalator

escalator 

a set of moving stairs that take people to different levels in a building 

treadmill

treadmill   

1 [ a piece of exercise equipment that has a large belt around a set of wheels, that you can walk or run on while staying in the same place 

2 [ work or a way of life that seems very boring because you  

 always have to do the same things
the treadmill of working

3 [ a mill worked in the past by prisoners treading on steps fixed to a very

in the office 

 large wheel

       

parachutist

      parachutist 

 someone who jumps from a plane with a parachute 

 

on the pill

on the pill 

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start taking it regularly 

 

 be a pill

 if someone, especially a child, is a pill, they are annoying
 

Luke can be a real pill sometimes

cost a lot

high used about prices, rents, or charges
fancy used about restaurants, cars, or clothes that look expensive
posh used about hotels, restaurants, or cars that look expensive and are used by rich or high-class people
 

cost a lot also cost a bomb informal to be very expensive
 

be out of somebody's price range to be more than 

 someone can afford to pay
 

be a rip-off informal to be much too expensive, so that you feel you have been cheated
 

exorbitant exorbitant prices are much too high