square hole

collocation in English

meaningsofsquareandhole

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square
adjective
uk
/skweər/us
/skwer/
having the shape of ...
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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 ofsquareandholefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsquare hole

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And the patients don't always fit into, like a round peg into asquarehole.
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Midwest/cigarette and sermon beltborder sunlight woke and rose me as it burned through a smallsquareholein one of the two parallel surfaces in the attic.
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The matter becomes of great complexity when we have to face the problem of fitting a round peg into thesquarehole.
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They will also be invaluable in placing a square peg into asquarehole.
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In the top back room the walls are damp, and there is a z-feetsquareholein the ceiling which exposes slates.
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We want to put a square peg in asquarehole.
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Assessing the project under these criteria is like trying to fit a round peg into asquarehole.
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What we are really attempting to do is to fit a round peg into asquarehole.
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I believe that she is a square peg in asquarehole.
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The theory is that a square piece of wood of a given size will go into asquareholeof a given size, but it does not follow.
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You do not discover that a round peg does not fit asquareholeuntil you try to put the round peg into thesquarehole.
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In the old days when you had a man who was a round peg in asquarehole, there was a great deal of trouble in getting rid of him.
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Thissquareholeidentifies the disk as a high-density disk.
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There is still a largesquareholein the ground there.
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The hunter cuts asquareholein the ice on the lake and fishes using a fish lure and spear.
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The tiger grabbed her left arm and pulled it through a 4-inchsquarehole.
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The flat top has two holes; thesquareholeis called the hardy hole, where the square shank of the hardy fits.
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There is a hole at the bottom of the slow air chamber and a (generally)squareholeat the top of the playing chamber.
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It was round with asquareholein the middle.
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It is made out of a variety of materials that have asquareholechipped out of one of the ends.
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