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foretastefore‧taste /ˈfɔːteɪst $ ˈfɔːr-/ noun - Back in London I had a foretaste of the conflicts that were to come.
- Indeed, she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships.
- It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.
- The arm which was trapped beneath Celia gradually went numb, like a partial foretaste of death.
- The latest outbreak of violence in London, he claimed, was only a foretaste of what might happen.
- The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming, he said.
- The riots were in a sense a foretaste of the Gordon Riots of the summer of 1780.
► a foretaste of things to come Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come. ► be a foretaste of something- The violence on the streets was only a foretaste of what was to come.
- For visitors from an urban background, here is a foretaste of paradise ...
- Indeed, she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships.
- It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.
- This is a foretaste of what things will be like - if the polls are correct - over the next five years.
be a foretaste of something to be a sign of something more important, more impressive etc that will happen in the future: Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come. |