dizzy heights
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdizzyandheight
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dizzy
adjective
uk/ˈdɪz.i/us/ˈdɪz.i/
feeling as if everything is turning around, and that you are not able to balance and may ...
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height
noun[C or U]
uk/haɪt/us/haɪt/
the distance from the top to the bottom of something, or the quality of ...
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(Definition ofdizzyandheightfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I have even risen to a sufficientlydizzyheightto draw them up myself.
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It was always considered that the tax on beer could not get beyond 8½ d., but now we are reaching new and dizzy heights.
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I have no desire or capacity to wander in the dizzy heights which have been reached by most of the speakers this evening.
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He was born and bred there and has risen to dizzy heights.
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I am not sure that the debate reached the dizzy heights of being interesting, but it has been an important debate nevertheless.
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Sales of blank tapes are forever increasing at dramatic rates and last year they reached new dizzy heights.
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As such, he will know that, when a child falls from dizzy heights, it has a hard landing.
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There are in fact considerable cultural and economic interests at stake in our information society, where the need for images is spiralling to dizzy heights.
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Are they people who climbed to such dizzy heights purely because of family privilege?
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She cannot get beyond £2,000 a year, which is just about average industrial earnings, and a senior midwifery sister can get to the dizzy heights of £43 a week gross.
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On the caps of these dizzy heights, mountain sheep and elk rest during the night....
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