frightening thing

collocation in English

meaningsoffrighteningandthing

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frightening
adjective
uk
/ˈfraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/us
/ˈfraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/
making you ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition offrighteningandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That was a much morefrighteningthingto do.
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The reallyfrighteningthingis that the situation will get worse.
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The ratherfrighteningthingwas that that interpretation appeared to include continental ports.
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I think that it is the mostfrighteningthingthat could happen to an individual.
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That is thefrighteningthingabout the future of savings.
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Thefrighteningthingis that they exist rather more than they did.
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Thefrighteningthingis the procedure which follows when somebody reports that a building is dangerous.
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It is a terrible and afrighteningthing.
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This is thefrighteningthingabout the whole concept.
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This is thefrighteningthing.
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It was afrighteningthingto think that men should have to live in such insanitary and dirty conditions.
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Thefrighteningthingis that if one begins to list and mention specific groups, one always misses one or two.
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Perhaps the mostfrighteningthingfor me was not the stark openness of that work but the attitude of the pro-war protesters who followed the inspectors round.
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It is a ratherfrighteningthingthat even now such a large proportion of people admitted to hospital with burns suffer from burns caused by inflammable clothes.
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That is what happened two years ago, and thefrighteningthingis that, since that time, the industry has probably lost 250,000 workers, or perhaps even more.
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The firms that have spoken to me are not willing to take the risk and that is thefrighteningthing.
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However, the mostfrighteningthingwas that independent businessmen and the representatives of independent research foundations also withdrew.
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