round hole
collocation in Englishmeaningsofroundandhole
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round
adjective
uk/raʊnd/us/raʊnd/
shaped like a ball or circle, ...
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hole
noun[C]
uk/həʊl/us/hoʊl/
an empty space in an object, usually with an opening to the object's surface, or an opening that goes completely through ...
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(Definition ofroundandholefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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In the centre of the downwind screen was aroundholecircumscribed by a mounting ring to hold a releasing cage.
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Aroundholewon't take a square peg.
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This suggests a powerful actionlocation memory that swamped the relatively weaker visual cue of theroundhole.
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Not only did the 'healthy public policy' agenda not find footing within the interest structures, but it was also a square peg in theroundholeof most bureaucratic structures.
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His appointment certainly put a round peg in aroundhole.
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We sought aroundholefor the round peg and a square hole for the square peg.
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A round peg in a square hole, or a square peg in aroundhole, is not desirable.
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We are trying to fit a square peg into aroundhole.
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That is not a system that ensures that we get a square peg in a square hole and a round peg in aroundhole.
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He is certainly a round peg in aroundhole.
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And that has largely been due to the fact that you have tried to put a square peg into aroundhole.
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It seemed a case of the substitution authorities trying to put a square peg in aroundhole.
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He may be the square peg for theroundhole.
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They are quite simply trying to put a square peg in aroundhole.
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That sounds as though we want to put a square peg in aroundhole.
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These calves are now marked in the right ear by punching out of the tender ear aroundholehalf an inch in diameter.
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They often get the round peg in the square hole or the square peg in theroundholeon these committees.
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One of the things that these payments also do is to get round—as he so rightly put it—the problem of the square peg in theroundhole.
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In the simplest and oldest case the bearing is just aroundholethrough which the axle passes (a plain bearing).
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Examination of hazelnuts may show a neat,roundholein the shell.
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