Collocations withpocket
These are words often used in combination withpocket.
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back pocket
We are left with white, middle-class men in full-time occupations with a fistful of fivers in their back pocket who can continue driving.
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deep pocket
They are worried about the deep pocket theory, as they call it, where people go for the professional advisers who are well insured.
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hip pocket
The only way to judge a man is by his record, not by what he carried in his hip pocket.
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isolated pocket
This was an indication to me that this was not merely a small, isolated pocket of technology, but that it had a sophisticated industry behind it.
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left pocket
He thinks that what he has removed from the right to the left pocket is a receipt and it is not.
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pocket calculator
Not every human act can be priced with a pocket calculator.
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pocket gopher
The pocket gopher is also a solitary animal outside the breeding season, each individual digging a complex tunnel system and maintaining a territory.
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pocket of resistance
The term also occurs in the phrase pocket of resistance.
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pockets of poverty
Affluent regions should perhaps be allowed or obliged to do more to eliminate pockets of poverty.
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shirt pocket
For all years the school's monogram is printed on the shirt pocket.
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trouser pocket
In my part of the country he has usually got a rather dirty pound note in his trouser pocket, and that is the usual fee.
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waistcoat pocket
I do not carry it around with me in my waistcoat pocket.
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