waistcoat pocket
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwaistcoatandpocket
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waistcoat
noun[C]
uk/ˈweɪs.kəʊt/us/ˈwes.kət/
a piece of clothing that covers the upper body but not the arms and usually has buttons down the front, worn over ...
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pocket
noun[C]
uk/ˈpɒk.ɪt/us/ˈpɑː.kɪt/
a small bag for carrying things in, made of cloth and sewn into the inside or onto the outside of a piece ...
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(Definition ofwaistcoatandpocketfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I do not carry it around with me in mywaistcoatpocket.
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As his victim was dying in the roadway he leaned over him and put his hand into the dying man'swaistcoatpocket.
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They paid him his week's wages and gave him his 10 weeks' stamps to put in hiswaistcoatpocket.
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Dinner would consist of a few tablets which would be carried in thewaistcoatpocket.
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They could have a simplified rate book which would fit into thewaistcoatpocket, giving mileage and charges for the different means of transport.
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It must have been hiswaistcoatpocket.
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Some fool of a patient had given him a bit of radium, a few milligrammes, and he had been carrying this about in hiswaistcoatpocket.
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He produced from hiswaistcoatpocketa piece of coal a pound in weight and told us of the immense possibilities of energy that it contained.
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What that can mean one cannot tell, but it seems to me that he has some factories in hiswaistcoatpocketthat he can let out.
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Before wristwatches became popular, gentlemen kept their pocket watches in the frontwaistcoatpocket, with the watch on a watch chain threaded through a buttonhole.
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