frightening thought
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffrighteningandthought
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frightening
adjective
uk/ˈfraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/us/ˈfraɪ.tən.ɪŋ/
making you ...
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thought
noun[C or U]
uk/θɔːt/us/θɑːt/
the act of thinking about or considering something, an idea or opinion, or a set of ideas about a ...
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(Definition offrighteningandthoughtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is afrighteningthoughtthat there are season ticket holders who are not yet today getting their money's worth.
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However, it is afrighteningthoughtthat the court should have to proceed in this way.
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That is afrighteningthoughtof how quickly this reaction can happen, and how much more quickly it could affect human life.
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What afrighteningthoughtthat is when we analyse the cost to the nation.
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That is a sobering, even afrighteningthought.
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The discussion concerns what might well be now a quarter of the perid of a man's life, which is rather afrighteningthought.
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It is quite afrighteningthoughtwhen we reflect upon how much we depend upon it.
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That article talked about burying high-level waste, which is afrighteningthought.
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It is afrighteningthoughtfor local ratepayers.
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It is afrighteningthoughtthat we have allowed our civilian defence to collapse and vanish completely.
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Thatfrighteningthoughtmay go some way to explaining our difficulties.
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What a terrible andfrighteningthoughtis a majority voting system, which used to be called by the old-fashioned word "democracy".
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That is afrighteningthought.
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That is a sobering andfrighteningthought.
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It is afrighteningthoughtthat to- day we find two or even three men doing work which, with machinery, could be done by one man.
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It is afrighteningthought.
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Frankly, that is a deeplyfrighteningthought.
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It is afrighteningthought—is it not?
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That is a horrific andfrighteningthought.
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This is a veryfrighteningthoughtwhen one is talking of children of 14.
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