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one1 numberone2 pronounone3 determinerone4 adjectiveone5 noun
oneone1 /wʌn/ ●●● S1 W1 number Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwhen a small number of people or things arrive, leave etc
a number of people going in small groups from one place to another, especially from one country to another, over a long period of time: · The flow of immigrants from Bosnia has slowed to a trickle.a trickle of: · Since the rebellion there has been a steady trickle of refugees making their way across the border.
if people or things arrive, leave etc in dribs and drabs , they come or go in small groups and not all together at the same time: · The wedding guests were arriving in dribs and drabs.· He insisted on paying me back in dribs and drabs, five or ten dollars at a time.
if people or things arrive, leave etc in ones or twos , they arrive etc on their own or in very small groups: · There were only about fifty people in the hall, standing around in ones and twos.
a small number of people or things
a small number of people, things, places etc: · Most of the trees were destroyed by the fire, but a few survived.a few people/days/things etc: · She's gone to stay with her father for a few days.· Can I borrow a few dollars until I get paid?· I invited a few friends around on Saturday night.a few of (=a small number from a larger group): · Sean left the gate open and a few of the cows got out.
formal a few people, things, places etc, especially when they are part of a much bigger number: · Hundreds of people begin the training programme, but only a small number complete it successfully.a small number of: · Only a small number of people still speak Gaelic.· The new system is being tested in a small number of schools.· A relatively small number of industrially advanced countries control the world economy.
a smaller number than you expected or wanted: · "Were there many people at the show?" "No, not many."not many people/places etc: · There weren't many people at the party, but we still had a good time.· Not many restaurants stay open after midnight.not many of: · I think I'm quite a good cook but not many of my friends agree with me.
spoken a small number of people or things: · "Do you have any Bob Dylan albums?" "Yes, one or two."one or two people/places/questions etc: · We've had one or two problems with the car but nothing serious.· There are one or two things I'd like to ask you about.one or two of: · I only know the names of one or two of the new students.
especially spoken two, or a small number: · "How many drinks did you have?" "Just a couple."a couple of: · A couple of kids were playing in the street.· I saw her a couple of days ago.
a very small number of people or things, especially when this number is disappointing or surprising: · We offer a gym for our employees but only a handful ever use it.a handful of: · Only a handful of artists in Britain can make a living from painting.· A handful of people stayed after the concert to help clear the chairs away.
a small group of people or things from within a larger group, usually forming much less than half of the larger group: a minority of: · Only a minority of union members voted in favour of continuing the strike.a small/tiny etc minority: · Joyce is among the tiny minority of arthritis sufferers who experience these symptoms.· Every year more than three hundred students enter this program but only a small minority will go on to become lawyers.
if something is sparse , there are only very small amounts of it, especially spread over a large area: · sparse traffic· Trees are sparse in this part of the world because of the continuous wind that blows across the plains.
WORD SETS
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Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 Oh look, there’s another one of those birds.
 She spends the day rushing from one meeting to another.
(also one-bedroomed/two-bedroomed apartment British English)· A tiny one-bedroom apartment was all she could afford.
 He considers himself just one of the boys (=not anyone special, but liked by other men).
(=with only one floor)
(=used to say how likely something is)· People in their 30s have a one in 3,000 chance of getting the disease.
(=when something is extremely unlikely)· It must have been a million-to-one chance that we’d meet.
(=only if one particular thing is agreed to)· You can go, but only on one condition - you have to be back by eleven.
(=being with only one other person)· Children with learning difficulties may need one-to-one contact.
· He signed a five-year contract worth $2 million.
· She did a one-year teacher training course.
· The illness left her deaf in one ear.
(=one that will be fixed for one year, two years etc)· The five-year deal is estimated to be worth $17.2 million.
 Henry has always been a deep one. He keeps his views to himself.
 There are 250 blocks of stone, and each one weighs a ton.
 These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
 I got a few extra in case anyone else decides to come. I’ll be making $400 extra a month.
 Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other (=change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite).
· One in seven families is a one-parent family.
· She told Dave that she was his number one fan.
 You’re a fine one to talk (=you are criticizing someone for something you do yourself).
 Beans count as one of your five a day.
· She lived in a one-bedroom flat in Clapham.
· Their home is a humble two-room flat.
(=for one car)· A single garage could boost the price of a house by 8%.
· Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
 Ruby blew out all her candles at one go.
 Your passport is good for another three years.
 She’s a great one for telling stories about her schooldays.
· Our clocks carry a five-year guarantee.
 Charlie drank the whisky in one gulp.
· ‘How old is she?’ ‘Five and a half.’
· My only hope is that someone may have handed in the keys to the police.
(=discuss each other’s ideas and think of good new ones)· Our regular meetings are opportunities to fire ideas off each other.
 a six-inch nail
 Just take it. No one will ever know.
(=a member of your group of friends)
(=last except for one other, two others etc) on the last but one day of his trial
(=a lead of a specific amount)· Goals by Keane and Lennon gave Tottenham a two-goal lead.
(=think only of the advantages you can get for yourself)
 I took one look at the coat and decided it wasn’t worth £50.
 Many people feel guilty after the death of a loved one.
(=lucky people, especially when compared to others who suffered)· They considered themselves the lucky ones because they escaped with only minor injuries.
· A two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress is needed to overturn a presidential veto.
 One job loss is one too many (=one more than is acceptable, needed etc).
 He’s so generous. He’s one in a million.
 a ten-minute bus ride
(=it is something that you will never understand – used humorously)· Where socks disappear to after they’ve been washed is one of life’s little mysteries.
 We asked both John and Jerry, but neither one could offer a satisfactory explanation.
(=used to emphasize that you never thought something) She had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her.
spoken (=used to say that you have never heard something before) ‘The office is going to be closed for six weeks this summer.’ ‘Really? That’s a new one on me.’
(=0.1, 0.2 etc)
· Subtract this number from the total.
· What happens if you multiply a positive number by a negative number?
· You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
(=more than once)· She stayed out all night on more than one occasion.
(=once, and probably more than once)· On at least one occasion he was arrested for robbery.
 He does a one-man show in Las Vegas.
 It’s yours for a one-off payment of only £200.
 Ali gives his opponent the old one-two, and it’s all over.
 the town’s one-way system
 a one-woman show
 I was the only one who disagreed.
 One man was arrested, but the other one got away.
 I chose this coat in the end because the other ones were all too expensive.
 Thanks a lot for being so understanding about all this – I owe you one (=used to thank someone who has helped you, and to say that you are willing to help them in the future)!
· The questionnaire is in two parts: part one asks for your personal details and part two asks for your comments on the course.
 ‘What did you want?’ ‘Oh, nothing in particular.’
 I only eat here because it’s free – one of the perks of the job.
 Cheer up. At least you’re still in one piece.
 Ring Mum and let her know we got here in one piece.
· There is one final point I would like to make.
(=at a time in the past)· At one point I was thinking of studying physics.
 We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other. Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles (=think in two completely different ways) on this issue.
 If you say that again, I’ll pop you one.
· Controlling spending is his top priority.
 He was trying to pull a fast one (=deceive you) when he told you he’d paid.
 a quarter of a mile roughly one quarter of the city’s population It’s about a page and a quarter.
· This is turning into a one-horse race.
 Agassi was at that time ranked sixth in the world.
 a three-room apartment
 He’s one sandwich short of a picnic.
· A path leads down one side of the garden to a paved area.
(=of various different sorts)· Quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another.
 The computer industry is the one bright spot in the economy at the moment.
 The police are now back at square one in their investigation.
(=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time) Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
(=at a time in the past)· At one stage I had to tell him to calm down.
· Until recently, the country was a one-party state.
(=in which you can only drive in one direction)· He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
· A three-day strike is planned for next week.
(=the main suspect)· I was the one who found her. And that makes me the number one suspect for her murder.
 Two-thirds of the profits are given to charities.
(also a single ticket British English) (=a ticket to a place but not back again)· I bought a one-way ticket to London.
(=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour)
 ‘Do you want tea or coffee?’ ‘I don’t mind – whichever one you’re making.’
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • "Do you have any Bob Dylan albums?" "Yes, one or two."
  • I only know the names of one or two of the new students.
  • There are one or two things I'd like to ask you about.
  • There are one or two things to sort out before I leave.
  • We've had one or two problems with the car but nothing serious.
  • Accommodation Accommodation is in one or two bedroom apartments, about 300 to 400 yds from the sailing beach.
  • Eventually, this area should be able to support one or two satellite offices.
  • For the tall man, the lie should be one or two degrees more upright.
  • In one or two places, Jasper had to pull me up between the rocks.
  • Let us start with one or two fundamentals.
  • Ten of the 13 previous meetings between the Braves and Marlins were decided by one or two runs.
  • The statements should be listed, one or two sentences for each.
  • There were one or two escapees from within his group, however.
  • Guests arrived in ones and twos.
  • There were only about fifty people in the hall, standing around in ones and twos.
  • Instead, we will separate and make our way downtown in ones and twos.
  • Mounted men in ones and twos appeared suddenly from the cover of trees, or out of folds in the ground.
  • Shabby men were walking about, in ones and twos.
  • Stragglers kept joining in ones and twos.
  • The Browns started to browse along the wall, and, in ones and twos, other parents made their entrances.
  • The more moderate, responsible men and women began to leave in ones and twos and then in a landslide.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
► one after another/one after the other► one-all/two-all etc
  • We always call one another during the holidays.
  • Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.
  • His mum and I held one another up.
  • I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
  • Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another.
  • They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
  • This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
  • Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
  • At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
  • Besides, he got his point across, one way or another, and usually in Chicago style.
  • It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another.
  • Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.
  • Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another.
  • The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
  • Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
  • To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
  • Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another.
  • He's had one problem after another this year.
  • As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another.
  • Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
  • Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
  • Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
  • Just one after another on the streets.
  • On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
  • The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.
  • This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
► anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
  • Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.
  • But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
  • Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
  • Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
  • Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
  • She goes one better than last year.
  • The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
  • They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.
► not a bit/not one bit
  • The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
► there’s one born every minute► the last but one/the next but two etc► I/you can count somebody/something on (the fingers of) one hand
  • "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."
► do one
  • It goes in one ear and out the other.
► put all your eggs in one basket
  • Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
  • A crazy notion if ever there was one.
  • An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
  • Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
  • He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
  • Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
  • My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
  • My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
► one in every three/two in every hundred etc► keep/have one eye/half an eye on somebody/something
  • It was one in the eye for the old order.
  • A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
  • Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
  • Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
  • Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
  • I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
  • The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
  • She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
  • Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
► go off on one
  • "I'm off to work." Alright, have a good one."
  • And you have a good one.
  • My car's on fire? Boy, that's a good one!
  • The idea of John getting sick, the idea of John coming down with something: that's a good one.
  • At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
  • At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
  • At half past two this morning my wife died.
  • It was half past three in the morning.
  • She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
  • The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
  • They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
► can do something with one hand (tied) behind your back► have you heard the one about ...► I’ve heard that one before
  • It was one hell of a party.
  • Ray's a hell of a salesman.
  • She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
  • But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
  • DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
  • It's a hell of a game.
  • It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
  • It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
  • That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
  • They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
  • We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
  • Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
  • I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
  • I agree with you a hundred percent.
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota.
  • There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
  • We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
  • Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
  • Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
  • By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
  • In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
  • Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
  • Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
  • Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
  • This Persian carpet is one of a kind.
  • Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
  • Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
  • Since his patterns were often one of a kind, he relied little on machinery.
► leave something aside/to one side
  • You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck.
  • An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
  • By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
  • Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
  • I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
  • Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
  • Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck.
  • One for luck, and farewell.
► lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
  • The crowd rise to their feet as one man.
  • The... whole North arose as one man...
  • Undaunted, Athletico played as one man.
  • Ron looked like he'd had one too many.
► one man’s meat is another man’s poison► no one in their right mind ...► be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind► be in a minority of one► not think/believe etc for one minute► one minute ... the next (minute) ...► one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
  • His hand had not wavered for a moment.
  • His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
  • I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
  • I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
  • Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment.
► be neither one thing nor the other► nice one!
  • But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
  • This change is not a one way process.
  • We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
► one o'clock/two o'clock etc
  • I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
  • And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
  • At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
  • He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
  • Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
  • Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
  • Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
  • Why is it always the odd man out?
  • Funny thing, I hadn't noticed before what a one-horse town this was.
  • He himself grew up in slums, in one-horse towns, in abandoned oil fields.
  • It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy, though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
  • Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
  • Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
  • The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
  • The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
  • The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
  • Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
  • That guy has a one-track mind.
► I’ve only got one pair of hands► somebody puts his pants on one leg at a time
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece!
  • I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.
  • The china arrived all in one piece, thank God.
  • Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
  • All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece.
  • All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece, go home, and get a job.
  • At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
  • It should fall out in one piece.
  • It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
  • Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece.
  • The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece.
  • When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
► pull the other one (it’s got bells on)
  • The city faced the one-two punch of an earthquake followed by a recession.
  • And heart disease took a one-two punch.
  • They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
  • Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
  • Just put him over on the couch.
  • They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
  • Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
► in one respect/in some respects etc
  • And one for the road, the last word in car hi-fi.
  • The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
  • For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
  • In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
  • It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
  • Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
  • Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
  • She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
  • So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
  • They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
► under the same roof/under one roof► seen one ... seen them all► number one/two/three etc seed► shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc► be one ... short of a ...
  • Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
  • She put it to one side, and opened the folder of photographs.
  • Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
  • He was always taking me to one side, telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
► criticize/nag/hassle somebody up one side and down the other► one-minute/two-minute etc silence
  • Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting.
  • As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting.
  • At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting.
  • But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting.
  • I devoured it all almost at one sitting, reading it until my eyes closed.
  • I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
  • It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting.
► it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other► there's more than one way to skin a cat
  • How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
  • Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
  • He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
  • If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
  • Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
  • Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
  • We are back to square one.
  • It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
  • Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
  • The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
  • We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
► have more than one string to your bow
  • Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke.
  • But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke.
  • Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke?
  • His reputation would be lost at a stroke.
  • No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke, because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
  • People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
  • Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
  • The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
  • Then, at a stroke, something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
  • Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
► tell me another (one)
  • Ten to one Marsha will be late.
  • It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
  • Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
  • All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
  • He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
  • I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
  • She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
  • The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
  • They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
  • A higher body count score, for one thing.
  • He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing.
  • The ex-steelworkers, for one thing, have not gone away.
  • Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing, which balances out the supposed benefits.
  • Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
  • Well, for one thing, women have a different experience in life.
► something is just one of those things► it’s one thing to ..., (it’s) another thing to ...,► what with one thing and another
  • But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
  • I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
  • You can be sure one thing leads to another.
► there's only one thing for it
  • Just one damn thing after another.
  • She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
  • Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
► taking one thing with another
  • Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
  • At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
  • See, I can lock the doors all at one time.
  • There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time.
  • This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time.
  • You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time.
  • Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time.
  • It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
  • The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
  • The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
  • The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
  • Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time.
  • We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time.
  • Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
  • He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
  • Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
  • The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
  • There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
► nothing/no one can touch somebody/something► one good turn deserves another► two heads are better than one
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch.
  • Rab figured him the one to watch.
  • Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
  • The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
  • One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
  • As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
  • But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
  • In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
  • In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
  • In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
  • Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
  • My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
  • Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
  • Steve lost $500 in one whack.
  • Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
1the number 1:  They had one daughter. one hundred and twenty-one pounds Come back at one (=one o'clock). Katie’s almost one (=one year old).2one or two a small number of people or things SYN  a few:  There are one or two things to sort out before I leave.one of One or two of us knew him quite well.3in ones and twos British English alone or in pairs, rather than in large numbers or groups:  Guests arrived in ones and twos.
one1 numberone2 pronounone3 determinerone4 adjectiveone5 noun
oneone2 ●●● S1 W1 pronoun (plural ones) Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • "Do you know where those bowls are?" "Which ones?"
  • The houses are all pretty similar, but one is a little bigger than the others.
  • They're closing this factory but building two new ones in Atlanta.
  • We've been looking at houses but haven't found one we like yet.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone or something that existed before or that you had before
the previous person or thing is the one that existed just before now or before the time you are talking about: · The car's previous owner didn't take very good care of it.· Please ignore my previous instructions.
the last thing or person is the one that you had just before now, or the one that existed just before now: · The last apartment we lived in was much smaller than this one.· Beth broke up with her last boyfriend because he drank too much.
: ex-wife/ex-boyfriend/ex-soldier etc someone who used to be someone's wife, used to be a soldier etc, but is not any more: · Her dad's an ex-policeman.· Lydia is still friends with her ex-husband.
: somebody's old job/car/girlfriend/boss etc the job, car etc that someone had before the one they have now: · The new stadium is much bigger than the old one.· I saw Phil with one of my old girlfriends.· We all liked the old teacher better.
the person or thing that existed before the one you have just mentioned: · I didn't enjoy Spielberg's last film but I thought the one before was all right.· Each year, the convention is a little larger than the one before.
formal use this especially to talk about someone who used to have a particular job or position but does not any more: · Her former husband now lives in Houston.· Weinberger was an advisor to former president Ronald Reagan.
formal someone's predecessor is the person who had the same job before them: · Vandenberg has been a more active director than his predecessor.· Sally's predecessor had warned her about Nick, one of the company vice-presidents.
formal someone whose ideas or style are later used by another more famous person, or an organization, movement or machine that later develops into one that is more important: precursor of/to: · The abacus was the precursor of the modern electronic calculator.· The Office of Strategic Services was the precursor of the CIA.
the first person, organization, machine etc that existed before the one that exists now and that the one that exists now is based on: forerunner of: · The P-50 is a forerunner of today's supersonic jet.· Hansen played in the American Basketball League, a forerunner of the NBA.
before someone or something else in a list, line, series etc
before something or someone else in a list, series, or set: · I think you were before me in line, weren't you?· Islington station is one stop before Finsbury Park on the Victoria Line.
to happen or exist before something or someone else: · Churchill was a much stronger leader than the man who came before him.· A planning session at eleven-thirty will precede the noon lunch discussion.be preceded by something: · Witnesses say the fire was preceded by a loud explosion.· In most cases the illness is preceded by vomiting and chills.
before another person in a group of people who are waiting to do something: · The man in front of me looked very familiar.· There were about fifty people ahead of us waiting for tickets.
coming before the one that you are dealing with now: · The previous chapter examined how children learn language.· Each number in the series 2 - 4 - 8 - 16 is twice as large as the previous number.
coming at some time before the one you have just mentioned - use this especially about something that is very different from what is happening now: · He used a lot more color in his earlier paintings.· The play lacks the wit and energy of Jergen's earlier work.
the thing that comes before another in a series: · When you're in prison, every day feels just like the one before.
formal coming before the thing you have just mentioned, or the part of a book where you are now: · The preceding chapters have described several key events in recent French history.· In the preceding section of the poem, Whitman is talking about how important it is to live in the present.
written use this to talk about a person or thing that was mentioned earlier: · Write to the above address for more information.· The above diagram shows a diesel car engine.the above (=the people or things mentioned earlier): · Contact any of the above for more details.
at some time in the future
at some time in the future , but you do not know exactly when: · It's likely that global warming will become a major problem in the future.· What do you think life in the future will be like?in the near future (=at a time not long from now): · The new software will be available in the UK in the near future.in/for the foreseeable future (=at a time not long from now): · It is unlikely that the company will achieve a very high profit margin in the foreseeable future.
at a time in the future that has not been arranged yet: · Come over and see us some time.· We should get together some time.some time next week/next year/in 2005 etc: · The project should be completed some time next year.
at some time in the future, especially a long time from now: · Perhaps one day we could all go to London together.· One day, I'd like to visit the Grand Canyon.· She always knew that some day he would leave her.
at some time in the future - used especially when you think that something will probably happen or that someone will probably do something: · One of these days you're going to be sorry.· Richard's going to have a heart attack one of these days if he doesn't slow down.
use this to emphasize that something will definitely happen at some time in the future: · The day will finally come when a woman or a black man is elected president of the United States.· Let's hope that the day will come when it's no longer necessary to have such a vast amount of money spent on the military.
something you say or write in order to be funny
· Have you heard any good jokes lately?· Wilson spoke for about 15 minutes, peppering his mainly serious message with jokes.joke about · Leno opened the show with a joke about the election.get the jokealso see a joke British (=understand a joke) · It wasn't that I didn't get the joke - I just didn't think it was funny.· Everyone laughed except Mr Broadbent, who didn't see the joke.tell a joke · It's a good idea to start a speech by telling a joke.dirty joke (=one about sex) · In some situations, a dirty joke can be considered sexual harassment.private joke (=a secret joke) · The two girls were whispering in the corner and giggling over some private joke.
a short story you tell to make people laugh: · It reminded her of a funny story she'd heard at work.tell a funny story: · He began telling funny stories about the time he worked as a barman on a cruise ship.
informal something funny that someone says to try to make people laugh - use this especially when what they say annoys you: · Bob Hope would keep his audience laughing with an endless stream of jokes and wisecracks.· Amy responded with a wisecrack that got her in big trouble with the teacher.
a short remark that is funny and clever: · There are some memorable one-liners in every Woody Allen film.· It's a hilarious scene with a succession of brilliant one-liners from Groucho Marx.
a short joke, especially one told by a professional entertainer as part of a show: · His first job was writing gags for a famous comedian.gag about: · He started the show with a few old gags about mothers-in-law.
the sentence or phrase that comes at the end of a joke, and makes it funny: · He got to the end of the joke and couldn't remember the punch line.· I waited for the punch line, but it never came.
spoken say this when you are going to tell someone a joke about a particular subject: · Have you heard the one about the brown cow who goes into a bar?
a joke made by deliberately mixing up or mistaking two different meanings of the same word or two words with the same sound: · "Seven days without food makes one weak'' is a pun on the words "week'' and "weak'', and also on the different meanings of "one''.· The audience groaned at his pun.(if you'll) pardon the pun (=used to say that you know what you are going to say has two meanings): · "Pardon the pun, but we were all in the same boat," said Navy Lieutenant Green.
a joke made by deliberately using a word or phrase that has two possible meanings, one of which is about sex or sexual parts of the body: · Dirty jokes and double meanings are what makes the show funny.· The song's lyrics are full of double entendres.
someone you love
the people you love, especially the members of your family: · Many prisoners find it difficult being separated from their loved ones.· They are fighting to protect their loved ones from oppression and violence.
your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife - used especially in advertisements or sayings: · Flowers are the perfect gift for the one you love.· You know what they say: you always hurt the one you love.
the person who you have loved the most in your life: · Claude has always been the love of her life.· He knew as soon as he met her that Sumana would be the love of his life.
someone who was your girlfriend or boyfriend in the past, especially someone that you still like: · I met up with an old flame, and we sat and chatted for a while.
doing things one after the other
· It's easier if you count things up in order, so that you don't get confused.· A route is given to the postman, and he makes deliveries in order.
doing things separately and in a particular order, rather than all together: · One by one, the students were called in to be interviewed.· The toy is made so that when you hold the top square, the rest fall down one after another, making a clacking noise.
one person, then the next, then the next etc: · I was hard on my eldest son, and he, in turn, was mean to his little brother.· We distribute the book to charities, and those organizations in turn give the books to needy children.
also take it in turns British if two or more people take turns or take it in turns to do something, they decide to do it in order, one person after another, so that it is shared equally and fairly: · Small children find it almost impossible to take turns.take turns doing something: · We take turns doing the dishes.take turns to do something: · Mandy and Debbie took it in turns to look after the baby.
happening or doing something in a series
happening one after the other: · Successive nights without sleep make any new parent feel ready to quit.· Jackson became the first batter since Babe Ruth to hit three successive home runs in a single game.· Successive governments have failed to tackle the problem of international debt.
consecutive days, years etc come after one another, with no breaks in between: · The company has made a profit for seven consecutive years.· You must get a doctor's certificate if you're off work sick for more than three consecutive days.
happening immediately one after another in a series, especially in an unusually long series: · The temperatures was 40 degrees below zero for two weeks straight.· She is hoping to beat her personal record of 21 straight victories.
if something happens on a number of occasions, days, years etc in succession , it happens on each of those occasions, days, years etc, without a break: · She's won the championship four times in succession.· It's not advisable to plant wheat in the same field for more than two years in succession.
if a number of events happen one after the other or one after another , each one happens soon after the previous one: · One after another they got up and left the room.· He was so thirsty that he drank five glasses of water, one after the other.· She smoked nervously throughout the meeting, one cigarette after another.
done two or more times, one after another, without a break: · Last week I overslept three days in a row.· The Blazers have won 11 games in a row.
if you do something for the third time, fifth time etc running , you do it that number of times without a break: · This is the fourth time running you've been late.· Spender won the Cambridge Poetry Prize three years running.
two alternate actions, events, feelings etc are done in a fixed order, first one, then the other, then the first one again etc: · He worked alternate night and day shifts.· Italian cities have imposed alternate-day driving rules in an effort to reduce pollution.alternate Sundays/weekends etc (=first one Sunday or weekend, but not the next, then the next Sunday or weekend but not the next etc): · She visits her parents on alternate Sundays.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
· One of the windows was open.
· One of them has gone.
 The only ones who will benefit are the shareholders.
 She felt as she always did in these mountains: peaceful, without care, at one with nature.
 How about a quick one at the pub?
(=have drunk too much alcohol)
(=have one last alcoholic drink before you leave a place)
 Have you heard the one about the chicken who tried to cross the road?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 Oh look, there’s another one of those birds.
 She spends the day rushing from one meeting to another.
(also one-bedroomed/two-bedroomed apartment British English)· A tiny one-bedroom apartment was all she could afford.
 He considers himself just one of the boys (=not anyone special, but liked by other men).
(=with only one floor)
(=used to say how likely something is)· People in their 30s have a one in 3,000 chance of getting the disease.
(=when something is extremely unlikely)· It must have been a million-to-one chance that we’d meet.
(=only if one particular thing is agreed to)· You can go, but only on one condition - you have to be back by eleven.
(=being with only one other person)· Children with learning difficulties may need one-to-one contact.
· He signed a five-year contract worth $2 million.
· She did a one-year teacher training course.
· The illness left her deaf in one ear.
(=one that will be fixed for one year, two years etc)· The five-year deal is estimated to be worth $17.2 million.
 Henry has always been a deep one. He keeps his views to himself.
 There are 250 blocks of stone, and each one weighs a ton.
 These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
 I got a few extra in case anyone else decides to come. I’ll be making $400 extra a month.
 Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other (=change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite).
· One in seven families is a one-parent family.
· She told Dave that she was his number one fan.
 You’re a fine one to talk (=you are criticizing someone for something you do yourself).
 Beans count as one of your five a day.
· She lived in a one-bedroom flat in Clapham.
· Their home is a humble two-room flat.
(=for one car)· A single garage could boost the price of a house by 8%.
· Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
 Ruby blew out all her candles at one go.
 Your passport is good for another three years.
 She’s a great one for telling stories about her schooldays.
· Our clocks carry a five-year guarantee.
 Charlie drank the whisky in one gulp.
· ‘How old is she?’ ‘Five and a half.’
· My only hope is that someone may have handed in the keys to the police.
(=discuss each other’s ideas and think of good new ones)· Our regular meetings are opportunities to fire ideas off each other.
 a six-inch nail
 Just take it. No one will ever know.
(=a member of your group of friends)
(=last except for one other, two others etc) on the last but one day of his trial
(=a lead of a specific amount)· Goals by Keane and Lennon gave Tottenham a two-goal lead.
(=think only of the advantages you can get for yourself)
 I took one look at the coat and decided it wasn’t worth £50.
 Many people feel guilty after the death of a loved one.
(=lucky people, especially when compared to others who suffered)· They considered themselves the lucky ones because they escaped with only minor injuries.
· A two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress is needed to overturn a presidential veto.
 One job loss is one too many (=one more than is acceptable, needed etc).
 He’s so generous. He’s one in a million.
 a ten-minute bus ride
(=it is something that you will never understand – used humorously)· Where socks disappear to after they’ve been washed is one of life’s little mysteries.
 We asked both John and Jerry, but neither one could offer a satisfactory explanation.
(=used to emphasize that you never thought something) She had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her.
spoken (=used to say that you have never heard something before) ‘The office is going to be closed for six weeks this summer.’ ‘Really? That’s a new one on me.’
(=0.1, 0.2 etc)
· Subtract this number from the total.
· What happens if you multiply a positive number by a negative number?
· You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
(=more than once)· She stayed out all night on more than one occasion.
(=once, and probably more than once)· On at least one occasion he was arrested for robbery.
 He does a one-man show in Las Vegas.
 It’s yours for a one-off payment of only £200.
 Ali gives his opponent the old one-two, and it’s all over.
 the town’s one-way system
 a one-woman show
 I was the only one who disagreed.
 One man was arrested, but the other one got away.
 I chose this coat in the end because the other ones were all too expensive.
 Thanks a lot for being so understanding about all this – I owe you one (=used to thank someone who has helped you, and to say that you are willing to help them in the future)!
· The questionnaire is in two parts: part one asks for your personal details and part two asks for your comments on the course.
 ‘What did you want?’ ‘Oh, nothing in particular.’
 I only eat here because it’s free – one of the perks of the job.
 Cheer up. At least you’re still in one piece.
 Ring Mum and let her know we got here in one piece.
· There is one final point I would like to make.
(=at a time in the past)· At one point I was thinking of studying physics.
 We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other. Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles (=think in two completely different ways) on this issue.
 If you say that again, I’ll pop you one.
· Controlling spending is his top priority.
 He was trying to pull a fast one (=deceive you) when he told you he’d paid.
 a quarter of a mile roughly one quarter of the city’s population It’s about a page and a quarter.
· This is turning into a one-horse race.
 Agassi was at that time ranked sixth in the world.
 a three-room apartment
 He’s one sandwich short of a picnic.
· A path leads down one side of the garden to a paved area.
(=of various different sorts)· Quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another.
 The computer industry is the one bright spot in the economy at the moment.
 The police are now back at square one in their investigation.
(=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time) Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
(=at a time in the past)· At one stage I had to tell him to calm down.
· Until recently, the country was a one-party state.
(=in which you can only drive in one direction)· He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
· A three-day strike is planned for next week.
(=the main suspect)· I was the one who found her. And that makes me the number one suspect for her murder.
 Two-thirds of the profits are given to charities.
(also a single ticket British English) (=a ticket to a place but not back again)· I bought a one-way ticket to London.
(=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour)
 ‘Do you want tea or coffee?’ ‘I don’t mind – whichever one you’re making.’
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • It's a TV, radio, and VCR all in one.
  • And if that were not enough, I was fortunate to live in one of the most beautiful towns in the state.
  • Cheltenham races are being broadcast in one corner, the Budget in another.
  • Information arrival was proxied by daily futures and spot volatility estimated in one of the six different ways.
  • Inside the house of a friend of mine nearly everything was affected in one way or another.
  • Nearly all the encounters end in one of the other three ways.
  • People emerge from the casinos with beers in one hand and plastic cups full of change in the other.
  • Schwab is reengineering its own business in one visionary leap that will require six years to execute.
  • When she was nine, she recalled in one of her stories, her parents had begun to fight.
► I, for one, ...
  • For one thing, the data is by definition stored off-site.
  • Q.. What is the penalty for those who marry only to obtain a green card for one of the spouses?
  • Some people feel their home is too big for one or two, but do not wish to move.
  • The first shot at 16kA achieved currents up to 60,000 amps for one tenth of a second.
  • The middle icon is used not just for one option but four.
  • They have to register with our party for one night, as painful as that may be to some.
  • Well, for one reason, your garden is such a good source of food.
  • Yet another claim for one damaged was submitted by the A.A. gunners.
► be one up (on somebody)/get one up on somebody
  • Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
  • They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
  • Because: In order to be at one with the Static Cosmos, one must achieve a state of supreme stillness.
  • I have seemed to be at one with the world.
  • In that belief he was at one with the Communists.
  • It was at one with consumer bodies in wishing to see their activities stopped.
  • Nevertheless he was at one with Wheatley on the need to abandon free trade and develop a protected imperial bloc.
  • Reyntiens' considerable technical expertise is at one with his imagination.
  • So far the Church is at one with the State.
  • The gestures they make are at one with their interesting footwork.
  • And then the one about Mum.
  • Did you read the one about his Christmas cards?
  • He says his favourite Monty Python sketch is the one about Jean-Paul Sartre.
  • She is still processing his last statement, the one about needing an operation.
  • They would in fact be applying a test for review not dissimilar to the one about to be examined. 2.
  • The whole team stood up as one and marched out of the room.
  • But what is temperament, and how do we define what is a good one?
  • I knew there was no sense in trying to do a better one.
  • Maybe it was a crackpot theory, but it was a good one.
  • Nevertheless, it was always clear that Schmidt's third term in office would prove a difficult one.
  • Payno was gleeful, for his idea was a good one.
  • The belief that hierarchical organizational structure makes for good business is a difficult one to give up.
  • The Berlin Philharmonic as it exists today may be a happier orchestra, but it is in no way a better one.
  • Then I became a lead project manager and, I have to say, I was a good one.
  • Many of their supporters think of the two brothers as one and the same.
  • At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear.
  • At this stage we don't know if they are one and the same person.
  • But it is still wrong to think that here research and higher education are one and the same thing.
  • For several long stretches, the road and a large sandy wash are one and the same.
  • The two Taylors are one and the same.
  • Therefore the actual being that contains each possible world is one and the same being that contains all possible worlds.
  • Victor and vanquished, he was beginning to think, came together in art and were one and the same.
  • Writing as he did, Marx left the inevitable impression that he and history were one and the same.
  • Tom is not one to show his emotions.
  • I never was one to collect a bunch of guitars like some people do.
► not/never be (a great) one for (doing) something
  • You can trust him - he's one of us.
  • But tomorrow any one of us could be dead.
  • Every one of us has prejudices of some kind in varying degrees.
  • He let them win, and every one of us watching the game knows it.
  • If one of us goes through menopause, we all suffer a collective hot flash.
  • If one of us hits the half-century mark, we all do.
  • If our intuitions differ, one of us at least is wrong, but we may be unable to find out which.
  • To start with, neither one of us could fly.
  • Who is he, to be provoked by one of us?
  • The pastor is a friend to one and all.
  • At four corners are smaller octagons, replicas in design of the large one and all very tall.
  • Hence, the First Amendment, which is meant to encourage gaseous emissions from one and all.
  • Her professionalism, dedication and attitude should be an example to one and all.
  • Marge was busy hugging one and all, including Miss Rose, who did not relish a hug.
  • So Ford took concrete steps to get the idea across to one and all.
  • They are one and all friendly, kind and tolerant - largely I surmise by virtue of my wife and her approachability.
  • Unimpeachable classics, one and all.
  • Yet the program aims to treat one and all with professional respect.
  • But in that case Robert was the one who should have stayed.
  • He wanted to be the one who did the organizing and made the improvements.
  • I'd said the right thing and she'd buttoned me as the one who signed the cheques.
  • I was the one who had to take it to my tutor, not them.
  • Maggie had never been to the big barn before, the one that had looked so imposing from the air.
  • Of all the proposals, the one that you made is the silliest. 3.
  • Often, the one who brought it home had soon lost interest in his acquisition.
  • She's the one who ought to be got rid of.
► got it in one!
  • As Jack goes on hunting, the little ones look at him as an expert.
  • Bowel frequency, for example, was little greater in the older patients than in the younger ones.
  • Happy shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rock!
  • Helping with academic or social tasks, the older children develop a sense of responsibility for the younger ones in the building.
  • Mr Preston had recently cleared out his old trees and planted new young ones.
  • Older respondents tend to state their replies in honorifics; younger ones are less reverential.
  • The older kids were at school and two of the women had taken the younger ones to the park.
  • They were thinking of wives and little ones far away, and wondering if they would ever see them again.
► you are/he is a one
  • One by one, worshipers walked to the front of the church.
  • At once Lord Boddy did the same, and one by one, as they listened and nodded, everyone else followed suit.
  • He examined them one by one.
  • Little puffs of dust rose up as he opened them, one by one.
  • Paul, Minnesota, and one by one three of the younger brothers who also became lawyers joined George there.
  • She ticks them off, one by one, on her long slender fingers.
  • The problems were then studied one by one in order of urgency.
  • They were all taken away by the Red Guards, broken one by one in the street.
  • We hold one another, then we return, one by one, each person saying a private good-bye.
► one after another/one after the otherPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
► one after another/one after the other► one-all/two-all etc
  • We always call one another during the holidays.
  • Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.
  • His mum and I held one another up.
  • I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
  • Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another.
  • They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
  • This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
  • Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
  • At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
  • Besides, he got his point across, one way or another, and usually in Chicago style.
  • It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another.
  • Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.
  • Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another.
  • The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
  • Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
  • To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
  • Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another.
  • He's had one problem after another this year.
  • As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another.
  • Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
  • Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
  • Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
  • Just one after another on the streets.
  • On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
  • The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.
  • This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
► anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
  • Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.
  • But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
  • Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
  • Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
  • Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
  • She goes one better than last year.
  • The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
  • They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.
► not a bit/not one bit
  • The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
► there’s one born every minute► the last but one/the next but two etc► I/you can count somebody/something on (the fingers of) one hand
  • "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."
► do one
  • It goes in one ear and out the other.
► put all your eggs in one basket
  • Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
  • A crazy notion if ever there was one.
  • An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
  • Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
  • He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
  • Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
  • My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
  • My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
► one in every three/two in every hundred etc► keep/have one eye/half an eye on somebody/something
  • It was one in the eye for the old order.
  • A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
  • Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
  • Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
  • Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
  • I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
  • The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
  • She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
  • Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
► go off on one
  • "I'm off to work." Alright, have a good one."
  • And you have a good one.
  • My car's on fire? Boy, that's a good one!
  • The idea of John getting sick, the idea of John coming down with something: that's a good one.
  • At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
  • At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
  • At half past two this morning my wife died.
  • It was half past three in the morning.
  • She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
  • The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
  • They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
► can do something with one hand (tied) behind your back► have you heard the one about ...► I’ve heard that one before
  • It was one hell of a party.
  • Ray's a hell of a salesman.
  • She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
  • But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
  • DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
  • It's a hell of a game.
  • It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
  • It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
  • That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
  • They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
  • We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
  • Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
  • I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
  • I agree with you a hundred percent.
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota.
  • There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
  • We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
  • Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
  • Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
  • By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
  • In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
  • Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
  • Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
  • Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
  • This Persian carpet is one of a kind.
  • Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
  • Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
  • Since his patterns were often one of a kind, he relied little on machinery.
► leave something aside/to one side
  • You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck.
  • An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
  • By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
  • Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
  • I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
  • Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
  • Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck.
  • One for luck, and farewell.
► lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
  • The crowd rise to their feet as one man.
  • The... whole North arose as one man...
  • Undaunted, Athletico played as one man.
  • Ron looked like he'd had one too many.
► one man’s meat is another man’s poison► no one in their right mind ...► be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind► be in a minority of one► not think/believe etc for one minute► one minute ... the next (minute) ...► one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
  • His hand had not wavered for a moment.
  • His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
  • I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
  • I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
  • Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment.
► be neither one thing nor the other► nice one!
  • But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
  • This change is not a one way process.
  • We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
► one o'clock/two o'clock etc
  • I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
  • And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
  • At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
  • He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
  • Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
  • Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
  • Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
  • Why is it always the odd man out?
  • Funny thing, I hadn't noticed before what a one-horse town this was.
  • He himself grew up in slums, in one-horse towns, in abandoned oil fields.
  • It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy, though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
  • Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
  • Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
  • The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
  • The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
  • The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
  • Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
  • That guy has a one-track mind.
► I’ve only got one pair of hands► somebody puts his pants on one leg at a time
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece!
  • I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.
  • The china arrived all in one piece, thank God.
  • Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
  • All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece.
  • All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece, go home, and get a job.
  • At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
  • It should fall out in one piece.
  • It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
  • Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece.
  • The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece.
  • When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
► pull the other one (it’s got bells on)
  • The city faced the one-two punch of an earthquake followed by a recession.
  • And heart disease took a one-two punch.
  • They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
  • Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
  • Just put him over on the couch.
  • They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
  • Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
► in one respect/in some respects etc
  • And one for the road, the last word in car hi-fi.
  • The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
  • For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
  • In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
  • It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
  • Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
  • Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
  • She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
  • So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
  • They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
► under the same roof/under one roof► seen one ... seen them all► number one/two/three etc seed► shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc► be one ... short of a ...
  • Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
  • She put it to one side, and opened the folder of photographs.
  • Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
  • He was always taking me to one side, telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
► criticize/nag/hassle somebody up one side and down the other► one-minute/two-minute etc silence
  • Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting.
  • As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting.
  • At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting.
  • But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting.
  • I devoured it all almost at one sitting, reading it until my eyes closed.
  • I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
  • It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting.
► it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other► there's more than one way to skin a cat
  • How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
  • Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
  • He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
  • If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
  • Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
  • Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
  • We are back to square one.
  • It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
  • Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
  • The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
  • We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
► have more than one string to your bow
  • Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke.
  • But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke.
  • Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke?
  • His reputation would be lost at a stroke.
  • No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke, because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
  • People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
  • Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
  • The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
  • Then, at a stroke, something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
  • Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
► tell me another (one)
  • Ten to one Marsha will be late.
  • It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
  • Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
  • All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
  • He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
  • I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
  • She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
  • The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
  • They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
  • A higher body count score, for one thing.
  • He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing.
  • The ex-steelworkers, for one thing, have not gone away.
  • Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing, which balances out the supposed benefits.
  • Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
  • Well, for one thing, women have a different experience in life.
► something is just one of those things► it’s one thing to ..., (it’s) another thing to ...,► what with one thing and another
  • But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
  • I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
  • You can be sure one thing leads to another.
► there's only one thing for it
  • Just one damn thing after another.
  • She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
  • Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
► taking one thing with another
  • Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
  • At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
  • See, I can lock the doors all at one time.
  • There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time.
  • This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time.
  • You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time.
  • Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time.
  • It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
  • The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
  • The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
  • The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
  • Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time.
  • We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time.
  • Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
  • He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
  • Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
  • The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
  • There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
► nothing/no one can touch somebody/something► one good turn deserves another► two heads are better than one
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch.
  • Rab figured him the one to watch.
  • Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
  • The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
  • One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
  • As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
  • But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
  • In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
  • In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
  • In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
  • Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
  • My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
  • Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
  • Steve lost $500 in one whack.
  • Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
1used to mean someone or something of a type that has already been mentioned or is known about:  ‘Have you got a camera?’ ‘No.’ ‘You should buy one (=buy a camera).' The train was crowded so we decided to catch a later one (=catch a later train).the one(s) (that/who/which) The only jokes I tell are the ones that I hear from you.this one/that one/these ones/those ones I like all the pictures except this one.2used to refer to a member of a group or pair of people or things:  The children seemed upset. One was crying. She has two daughters. One is a primary school teacher, the other is a musician.one of One of the girls I work with is getting married. This is one of my favourite books.GRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?Although one of is followed by a plural noun, you use a singular verb: · One of the windows was open.· One of them has gone.3the one(s) who/that the person or people who:  I was the one who had been attacked, not Richard. The only ones who will benefit are the shareholders.4one by one used when one person or thing in a group does something, then the next, then the next, especially in a regular way:  One by one each soldier approached the coffin and gave a final salute.5one after another/one after the other if events happen one after the other, they happen without much time between them:  One after another, tropical storms battered the Pacific coastline.6(all) in one if someone or something is many different things all in one, they are all those things:  It’s a TV, radio, and VCR all in one.7 formal used to mean people in general, including yourself:  One can never be too careful. Great pictures make one think.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually use you rather than one:· You can never be too careful.8I, for one, ... used to emphasize that you believe something, will do something etc and hope others will do the same:  I, for one, am proud of the team’s effort.9... for one used to give an example of someone or something:  There were several other people absent that afternoon, weren’t there? Mr Ashton for one.10be one up (on somebody)/get one up on somebody to have or get an advantage over someone → one-upmanship11 put one over on somebody informal to trick someone:  No one’s going to put one over on me!12be at one with somebody/something a)to feel very calm or relaxed in the situation or environment you are in:  She felt as she always did in these mountains: peaceful, without care, at one with nature. b) formal to agree with someone about something:  He was at one with Wheatley on the need to abandon free trade.13informal used in particular phrases to mean ‘an alcoholic drink’:  How about a quick one at the pub?have had one too many (=have drunk too much alcohol)(have) one for the road (=have one last alcoholic drink before you leave a place)14the one about ... spoken a joke or humorous story:  Have you heard the one about the chicken who tried to cross the road?15as one written if many people do something as one, they all do it at the same time:  The whole team stood up as one.16a difficult/hard/good etc one a particular kind of problem, question, story etc:  ‘What do you attribute your long life to?’ ‘Oh that’s a difficult one.’17one and the same the same person or thing:  Muhammad Ali and Cassius Clay are one and the same.18not/never be one to do something informal to never do a particular thing, because it is not part of your character to do it:  Tom is not one to show his emotions.19not/never be (a great) one for (doing) something informal to not enjoy a particular activity, subject etc:  I’ve never been a great one for watersports.20one of us spoken used to say that someone belongs to the same group as you, or has the same ideas, beliefs etc:  You can talk in front of Terry – he’s one of us.21one and all old-fashioned or formal everyone:  Apologies to one and all.22 got it in one! British English spoken used to say that someone has correctly guessed or understood something immediately:  ‘You’re not painting the house again are you?’ ‘Got it in one!’23little/young ones spoken used by some people to mean ‘children’, especially young children:  She’s got four little ones.24you are/he is a one British English old-fashioned used to say that someone’s behaviour is amusing, strange, or surprising:  You are a one! → one-to-one
one1 numberone2 pronounone3 determinerone4 adjectiveone5 noun
oneone3 ●●● S1 W1 determiner Word Origin
WORD ORIGINone3
Origin:
Old English an
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • One reason I like the house is because of the big kitchen.
  • My one regret is that I never told Brad how I felt.
  • My one worry is that she'll decide to leave college.
  • She's one crazy lady!
  • She was the one friend that I could trust.
  • That's one fancy car you've got there.
  • That is one cute kid!
  • The one thing I don't like about my car is the colour.
  • The one time I forgot my umbrella was the day it rained.
  • The car belongs to one Joseph Nelson.
  • Why does my card work in one cash machine and not in another?
  • You're the one person I can trust.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatoragain
· If you're late again we'll leave without you.· The floor needs cleaning again.· It was nice to see you again.· Julie! It's your sister on the phone again.· The fresh mountain air soon made Jennifer feel strong again.· When I was safely back in my apartment again, I took out the letter and read it.
formal use this especially about something worrying or serious that has happened before: · Once again, the French army were totally humiliated.· The crops had failed, and once more, famine threatened the region.· Once again, I must remind you of the seriousness of the problems we face.· The cost of living is once more on the increase.· Once again, the City Council has decided to ignore the interests of the taxpayers.
use this when something has happened too many times before in a way that is very annoying: · Yet again, I was forced to ask my parents for money.· The opening of the new museum has been delayed yet again.· Yet again, you're late turning in your assignment.· It was the last day of their vacation and it was raining yet again.
again, and usually for the last time: · Can we practise the last part just once more?· I'm going to ask you just one more time: where did you get this money?· She wanted to see her grandfather once more before he died.
: fresh attempt/look/start one that is done again from the beginning in a new way, after you have been unsuccessful in the past: · I think we need to take a fresh look at the problem.· The army is planning a fresh attempt to regain control of the capital.
spoken say this when something annoying happens again or happens too many times: · "Sue, Steve's on the phone asking for you." "Oh, not again!"· "Not again!" said Anna, as the word CANCELLED appeared next to her flight number for the third time.
to try to make someone less angry
use this to talk about one person or thing that is similar to the one you already have: · "I've lost my pencil." "Don't worry, here's another."another person/thing/glass etc: · Would you like another drink?· She got another chance to see him after the show.another one: · "That was a good cup of coffee." "Would you like another one?"another of: · This is just another of his crazy ideas. Ignore it.
another - use this to emphasize that this will be the last one: · One more drink and then I really have to go.· I'll give you one more chance to tell the truth.
in addition to the usual amount or number - use this about something useful that you may need: · Bring an extra set of clothes in case you decide to stay overnight.· Do you want to earn some extra cash?
: spare room/key/tyre etc another room, key etc that you do not usually use but you can use if you need to: · I always leave a set of spare keys with my neighbor.· All cars have to carry a spare tyre by law.
formal more than the usual or expected amount: · There will be an additional charge for any extra baggage.· Additional security was provided for the President's visit.
types of film
after a long period of time, especially after a lot of difficulties or after a long delay: · After a lot of questioning, James finally admitted he had taken the car.· In the end, I decided that the best thing to do was to ask Billy for help.· The plane eventually arrived at 6:30 - over three hours late.
use this when something good happens after you have waited for it for a long time: · I'm really glad that Ken's found a job at last.· At last the rain stopped and the players came back on the field.at long last (=after a very long time): · At long last he was able to see his family again.
if something is going to happen sooner or later , it will certainly happen but you do not know exactly when: · Sooner or later this would end up in the papers, and I would be out of a job.· I'm sure Brian will turn up sooner or later.· He is worried that sooner or later his business will fail.
use this to say that something will happen at some time in the future, especially something that you hope will happen, although you do not know exactly when: · They're bound to find a cure for cancer one day.· I knew that we would meet again one day.· One day ordinary people will be able to travel in space.
after a particular period of time, especially after a gradual process of change or development: · She started as an office junior, and in time became director of the whole company.· Jarvis was a strange man, but in time I got to like him.
if someone or something ends up in a particular situation or condition, they eventually come to be in that situation or condition - use this especially about something bad that happens: · Forbes ended up in prison for not paying his taxes.· The sweater that my mum knitted ended up twice the size it should have been.end up doing something: · We ended up having to postpone our vacation.end up as: · Our chess game finally ended up as a draw.
at some time in the future
at some time in the future , but you do not know exactly when: · It's likely that global warming will become a major problem in the future.· What do you think life in the future will be like?in the near future (=at a time not long from now): · The new software will be available in the UK in the near future.in/for the foreseeable future (=at a time not long from now): · It is unlikely that the company will achieve a very high profit margin in the foreseeable future.
at a time in the future that has not been arranged yet: · Come over and see us some time.· We should get together some time.some time next week/next year/in 2005 etc: · The project should be completed some time next year.
at some time in the future, especially a long time from now: · Perhaps one day we could all go to London together.· One day, I'd like to visit the Grand Canyon.· She always knew that some day he would leave her.
at some time in the future - used especially when you think that something will probably happen or that someone will probably do something: · One of these days you're going to be sorry.· Richard's going to have a heart attack one of these days if he doesn't slow down.
use this to emphasize that something will definitely happen at some time in the future: · The day will finally come when a woman or a black man is elected president of the United States.· Let's hope that the day will come when it's no longer necessary to have such a vast amount of money spent on the military.
old-fashioned in a pleasant way
· They had met once on holiday, so they knew each other slightly.· She once called me a liar and I've never forgiven her.· I remember once it snowed on my birthday, and I was so excited.
spoken once: · I remember coming home from school one time and finding we'd been burgled.· One time we went out fishing on the lake at night.
use this to give an example of when something you are talking about happened, especially when it is a particularly interesting or extreme example: · On one occasion, she rang his home and a strange woman answered.· She had some pretty frightening experiences. On one occasion her jeep was hijacked by a group of armed soldiers.
at one time during a period of time, process, or event in the past: · I dieted for many years, and at one stage I weighed only 71 kg.· It was a terrible winter. At one stage all the roads to the village were blocked by snow.· At one stage in the match, he was trailing by three games, but he managed to fight back.
at one time during an activity or period of time in the past: · At one point in the interview, he seemed close to tears.· "You play the piano very well," I remember Mrs Saito remarking at one point.· I had several narrow escapes during the war, at one point just missing death when my plane was shot down.
on a day in the past - use this especially when the exact day does not matter and you are telling the story of what happened: · I was sitting eating my breakfast one day when the telephone rang.· One day when we had nothing else to do, we went down to the river for a swim.· He used to come and go, then one day he went away and never came back.
only one, or only a small number
only one person or thing, or only a small number of people or things, and not anyone or anything else: · There was only one dress that she really liked.· Only rich people were able to travel abroad in those days.· You can only take one piece of hand baggage onto the plane.· You get only two chances - if you fail the exam twice you can't take it again.the only person/thing/place etc: · She's the only woman I've ever loved.be only for somebody (=only one person or group can use something): · These seats are only for first class passengers.
especially spoken only one person, thing, type, or group, or only a small number of them, especially when this is surprising: · "Were there a lot of people there?" "No, just me and David."· He started his own small shop - at first just selling newspapers, then books and magazines.· "Does everyone have to wear uniform?" "No, just the first year students."
the only thing or things, especially when this is disappointing, annoying, or surprising: · All Kevin ever talks about is football.· We were really hungry, but all we could find was some stale bread.· All I wanted was a bit of sympathy.
use this especially when you feel disappointed, annoyed, or surprised that something is the only thing there is or the only thing someone does: · There was nothing but salad to eat.· They did nothing but argue for the whole journey.
: one thing/person/time/problem etc the only person, thing etc and no others - use this to emphasize that there really is only one person or thing of this type: the one thing/person/time/problem etc: · She was the one friend that I could trust.· The one thing I don't like about my car is the colour.· The one time I forgot my umbrella was the day it rained.somebody's one regret/friend/mistake etc: · My one regret is that I never told Brad how I felt.
being the only one, when usually you would expect there to be more - used in newspapers and literature: · A lone gunman burst into his house and shot him dead.· Out of the stillness, a lone bird began to sing.
a solitary person, tree, building etc is the only one you can see in a place, and may therefore seem a little lonely or sad: · A solitary light shone in the street.· There was one solitary hotel left standing after the earthquake.· I could see a solitary figure outlined against the horizon.
formal the only person, thing etc, especially when you would expect there to be more or expect it to be different: · Everyone ignored my sole contribution to the conversation.the sole person/thing etc: · In many households, the woman is the sole breadwinner (=the only person who has a job).with the sole intention/objective/aim of doing something: · I think he came here with the sole intention of causing trouble.somebody's sole concern/objective etc: · NASA's sole concern was the safety of the astronauts.
made of, including, or involving only one thing or group, especially something special or something that is of good quality: · This shop sells clothes made exclusively of Indian materials.· The office staff are almost exclusively female.
on one occasion in the past
· She once called me a liar - I've never forgiven her.· Once, when I was a little boy, I found a gold watch on the beach.
informal on one occasion in the past: · One time we went out fishing on the lake at night.· Aileen came round to tea one time, and we did our homework together.
on a day, morning, or afternoon in the past - use this when it is not important to say exactly which day it is: · Then, one day he went away and never came back.· I was having my breakfast one morning when the telephone rang.· One day, when we had nothing else to do, we went for a swim in the river.
something that happened on one occasion happened once in the past, but is often typical of what usually happens: · He drinks far too much. On one occasion I saw him drink a whole bottle of vodka.· On one occasion I made the mistake of arriving at work late and my boss has never let me forget it.
if a particular situation existed at one stage during a period in the past, it existed, but only at that time: · It was a terrible winter. At one stage, we had to dig our way out of the house.· At one stage during the competition, it looked as though our team might win.· I went on a diet and at one stage I weighed only 71 kg.
if something happened, especially something interesting or important, at one point during an activity or period of time in the past, it happened then: · At one point in the interview Gorbachev admitted he had made serious mistakes.· "You play the piano very well," I remember Mrs Saito remarking at one point.
to not try to plan things, but deal with them as they happen
to not worry about or plan for something that has not happened yet, but decide what to do when it happens: · I always think the best way of approaching an interview is to take it as it comes.take things as they come: · The only way to manage when you have small kids is to take things as they come.take life as it comes/take each day as it comes: · If I were you, I'd just enjoy each day and take life as it comes.
spoken to not make plans about how to deal with a particular situation, but decide to wait until it actually happens and hope that you will know what to do then: · "Shall we tell Dad what's happened?" "Let's play it by ear and see what sort of mood he's in."· We've booked the flight, but not the accommodation -- we'll play it by ear when we get there.
to not plan very far in the future because you have too many problems now to be able to think about what may happen later: · Since Jim got ill, we've just had to live from day to day.· There's nothing as depressing as living from day to day, as the unemployed are forced to do.
if you deal with a problem or difficult situation one day at a time , you try to think about just what is happening in the present and do not try to plan what you will do in the future: · I've no idea where we'll live. Anyway, one day at a time.take/live one day at a time: · In order to overcome their addiction, they have to learn to take one day at a time.
very
· Juan is a very good dancer.· Your house is very different from the way I'd imagined it.· "Was it a good movie?" "Yes, very."· This meeting is very important, so be on time.· During our time working together I got to know her very well.· Everything was happening very quickly, and I don't remember it all.· The ambassador made a brief statement, saying that the talks had been very productive.
especially spoken use this especially to talk about your feelings or what you think about something: · It's really cold out there.· I'm always really hungry by noon.· That's a really pretty dress - where did you get it?· Considering this was your first time, I think you did really well.
formal very - use this only with particular adjectives: highly dangerous/toxic/flammable: · Danger: highly flammable materials!highly skilled/educated/ trained/intelligent: · Our engineers are highly skilled and very difficult to replace when they leave.highly likely/unlikely/probable/doubtful/suspicious: · I think it's highly unlikely that Bob had anything to do with the theft.highly successful/productive: · She arrived in Australia as a refugee, but went on to become a highly successful lawyer.
use this to describe very strong or very sincere feelings: · We are all deeply saddened by Bill's sudden death.· The ceremony was short but deeply moving.· Senator McCain is deeply committed to campaign finance reform.· I want you to know how deeply grateful I am for everything you've done for me.· Local residents are deeply concerned about the threat to health posed by the power station.
American spoken very: · I think it was real sweet that she called me herself.· The sidewalk was real wet and slippery.· He got up real close to the bear and took a picture.
use this to emphasize how you feel about something: · It all happened so fast.· You've been so kind. I hope I can repay you some day.· The dresses were lovely, and the colours were so pretty.· That puppy is so cute!
especially American, spoken use this to emphasize a description of someone or something: · She's one crazy lady!· That's one fancy car you've got there.
definitely or in a way that is easily noticed: · The weather had turned decidedly chilly.· The play has received decidedly negative reviews.
especially British use this with words that mean 'excellent': · Thank you, Gloria. That meal was quite delicious!· The concert was quite wonderful. I'm sorry you couldn't make it.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Why does my card work in one cash machine and not in another?
 He couldn’t bring himself to say what he thought. For one thing, she seldom stopped to listen. For another, he doubted that he could make himself clear.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 Oh look, there’s another one of those birds.
 She spends the day rushing from one meeting to another.
(also one-bedroomed/two-bedroomed apartment British English)· A tiny one-bedroom apartment was all she could afford.
 He considers himself just one of the boys (=not anyone special, but liked by other men).
(=with only one floor)
(=used to say how likely something is)· People in their 30s have a one in 3,000 chance of getting the disease.
(=when something is extremely unlikely)· It must have been a million-to-one chance that we’d meet.
(=only if one particular thing is agreed to)· You can go, but only on one condition - you have to be back by eleven.
(=being with only one other person)· Children with learning difficulties may need one-to-one contact.
· He signed a five-year contract worth $2 million.
· She did a one-year teacher training course.
· The illness left her deaf in one ear.
(=one that will be fixed for one year, two years etc)· The five-year deal is estimated to be worth $17.2 million.
 Henry has always been a deep one. He keeps his views to himself.
 There are 250 blocks of stone, and each one weighs a ton.
 These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
 I got a few extra in case anyone else decides to come. I’ll be making $400 extra a month.
 Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other (=change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite).
· One in seven families is a one-parent family.
· She told Dave that she was his number one fan.
 You’re a fine one to talk (=you are criticizing someone for something you do yourself).
 Beans count as one of your five a day.
· She lived in a one-bedroom flat in Clapham.
· Their home is a humble two-room flat.
(=for one car)· A single garage could boost the price of a house by 8%.
· Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
 Ruby blew out all her candles at one go.
 Your passport is good for another three years.
 She’s a great one for telling stories about her schooldays.
· Our clocks carry a five-year guarantee.
 Charlie drank the whisky in one gulp.
· ‘How old is she?’ ‘Five and a half.’
· My only hope is that someone may have handed in the keys to the police.
(=discuss each other’s ideas and think of good new ones)· Our regular meetings are opportunities to fire ideas off each other.
 a six-inch nail
 Just take it. No one will ever know.
(=a member of your group of friends)
(=last except for one other, two others etc) on the last but one day of his trial
(=a lead of a specific amount)· Goals by Keane and Lennon gave Tottenham a two-goal lead.
(=think only of the advantages you can get for yourself)
 I took one look at the coat and decided it wasn’t worth £50.
 Many people feel guilty after the death of a loved one.
(=lucky people, especially when compared to others who suffered)· They considered themselves the lucky ones because they escaped with only minor injuries.
· A two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress is needed to overturn a presidential veto.
 One job loss is one too many (=one more than is acceptable, needed etc).
 He’s so generous. He’s one in a million.
 a ten-minute bus ride
(=it is something that you will never understand – used humorously)· Where socks disappear to after they’ve been washed is one of life’s little mysteries.
 We asked both John and Jerry, but neither one could offer a satisfactory explanation.
(=used to emphasize that you never thought something) She had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her.
spoken (=used to say that you have never heard something before) ‘The office is going to be closed for six weeks this summer.’ ‘Really? That’s a new one on me.’
(=0.1, 0.2 etc)
· Subtract this number from the total.
· What happens if you multiply a positive number by a negative number?
· You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
(=more than once)· She stayed out all night on more than one occasion.
(=once, and probably more than once)· On at least one occasion he was arrested for robbery.
 He does a one-man show in Las Vegas.
 It’s yours for a one-off payment of only £200.
 Ali gives his opponent the old one-two, and it’s all over.
 the town’s one-way system
 a one-woman show
 I was the only one who disagreed.
 One man was arrested, but the other one got away.
 I chose this coat in the end because the other ones were all too expensive.
 Thanks a lot for being so understanding about all this – I owe you one (=used to thank someone who has helped you, and to say that you are willing to help them in the future)!
· The questionnaire is in two parts: part one asks for your personal details and part two asks for your comments on the course.
 ‘What did you want?’ ‘Oh, nothing in particular.’
 I only eat here because it’s free – one of the perks of the job.
 Cheer up. At least you’re still in one piece.
 Ring Mum and let her know we got here in one piece.
· There is one final point I would like to make.
(=at a time in the past)· At one point I was thinking of studying physics.
 We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other. Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles (=think in two completely different ways) on this issue.
 If you say that again, I’ll pop you one.
· Controlling spending is his top priority.
 He was trying to pull a fast one (=deceive you) when he told you he’d paid.
 a quarter of a mile roughly one quarter of the city’s population It’s about a page and a quarter.
· This is turning into a one-horse race.
 Agassi was at that time ranked sixth in the world.
 a three-room apartment
 He’s one sandwich short of a picnic.
· A path leads down one side of the garden to a paved area.
(=of various different sorts)· Quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another.
 The computer industry is the one bright spot in the economy at the moment.
 The police are now back at square one in their investigation.
(=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time) Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
(=at a time in the past)· At one stage I had to tell him to calm down.
· Until recently, the country was a one-party state.
(=in which you can only drive in one direction)· He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
· A three-day strike is planned for next week.
(=the main suspect)· I was the one who found her. And that makes me the number one suspect for her murder.
 Two-thirds of the profits are given to charities.
(also a single ticket British English) (=a ticket to a place but not back again)· I bought a one-way ticket to London.
(=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour)
 ‘Do you want tea or coffee?’ ‘I don’t mind – whichever one you’re making.’
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► be one crazy woman/be one interesting job etc
  • Everything, all in one year.
  • I've always said you'd hurt yourself one day.
  • In the tiny northern town of Sugar Hill, the police chief picks one day a month and issues tickets.
  • Mr Emery reopened his store one day after his arrest, and said he will sell marijuana seeds by mail order.
  • She remembered going with her father one day, and being dreadfully bored.
  • That includes one day, May 26, when the collar was invoked twice -- both on declines.
  • They may be more concerned about pain, or being sent home from the hospital after one day.
  • We prospectively followed up 50 patients with healed ulcers for one year.
► It’s one thing to ... it’s (quite) another to
  • No, of course you can't go. For one thing, you have too much homework to do.
  • We can't invite everyone - for one thing, it would cost too much.
  • A higher body count score, for one thing.
  • He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing.
  • He was tall, for one thing: tall and athletically built, although there was a laziness about his movements.
  • It would be tolerable but for one thing: She shares the space with eight children.
  • The ex-steelworkers, for one thing, have not gone away.
  • Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing, which balances out the supposed benefits.
  • Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
  • Well, for one thing, women have a different experience in life.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
► one after another/one after the other► one-all/two-all etc
  • We always call one another during the holidays.
  • Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.
  • His mum and I held one another up.
  • I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
  • Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another.
  • They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
  • This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
  • Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
  • At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
  • Besides, he got his point across, one way or another, and usually in Chicago style.
  • It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another.
  • Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.
  • Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another.
  • The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
  • Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
  • To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
  • Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another.
  • He's had one problem after another this year.
  • As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another.
  • Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
  • Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
  • Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
  • Just one after another on the streets.
  • On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
  • The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.
  • This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
► anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
  • Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.
  • But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
  • Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
  • Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
  • Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
  • She goes one better than last year.
  • The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
  • They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.
► not a bit/not one bit
  • The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
► there’s one born every minute► the last but one/the next but two etc► I/you can count somebody/something on (the fingers of) one hand
  • "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."
► do one
  • It goes in one ear and out the other.
► put all your eggs in one basket
  • Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
  • A crazy notion if ever there was one.
  • An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
  • Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
  • He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
  • Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
  • My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
  • My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
► one in every three/two in every hundred etc► keep/have one eye/half an eye on somebody/something
  • It was one in the eye for the old order.
  • A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
  • Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
  • Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
  • Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
  • I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
  • The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
  • She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
  • Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
► go off on one
  • "I'm off to work." Alright, have a good one."
  • And you have a good one.
  • My car's on fire? Boy, that's a good one!
  • The idea of John getting sick, the idea of John coming down with something: that's a good one.
  • At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
  • At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
  • At half past two this morning my wife died.
  • It was half past three in the morning.
  • She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
  • The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
  • They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
► can do something with one hand (tied) behind your back► have you heard the one about ...► I’ve heard that one before
  • It was one hell of a party.
  • Ray's a hell of a salesman.
  • She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
  • But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
  • DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
  • It's a hell of a game.
  • It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
  • It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
  • That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
  • They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
  • We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
  • Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
  • I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
  • I agree with you a hundred percent.
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota.
  • There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
  • We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
  • Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
  • Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
  • By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
  • In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
  • Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
  • Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
  • Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
  • This Persian carpet is one of a kind.
  • Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
  • Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
  • Since his patterns were often one of a kind, he relied little on machinery.
► leave something aside/to one side
  • You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck.
  • An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
  • By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
  • Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
  • I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
  • Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
  • Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck.
  • One for luck, and farewell.
► lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
  • The crowd rise to their feet as one man.
  • The... whole North arose as one man...
  • Undaunted, Athletico played as one man.
  • Ron looked like he'd had one too many.
► one man’s meat is another man’s poison► no one in their right mind ...► be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind► be in a minority of one► not think/believe etc for one minute► one minute ... the next (minute) ...► one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
  • His hand had not wavered for a moment.
  • His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
  • I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
  • I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
  • Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment.
► be neither one thing nor the other► nice one!
  • But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
  • This change is not a one way process.
  • We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
► one o'clock/two o'clock etc
  • I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
  • And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
  • At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
  • He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
  • Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
  • Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
  • Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
  • Why is it always the odd man out?
  • Funny thing, I hadn't noticed before what a one-horse town this was.
  • He himself grew up in slums, in one-horse towns, in abandoned oil fields.
  • It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy, though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
  • Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
  • Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
  • The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
  • The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
  • The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
  • Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
  • That guy has a one-track mind.
► I’ve only got one pair of hands► somebody puts his pants on one leg at a time
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece!
  • I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.
  • The china arrived all in one piece, thank God.
  • Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
  • All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece.
  • All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece, go home, and get a job.
  • At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
  • It should fall out in one piece.
  • It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
  • Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece.
  • The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece.
  • When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
► pull the other one (it’s got bells on)
  • The city faced the one-two punch of an earthquake followed by a recession.
  • And heart disease took a one-two punch.
  • They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
  • Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
  • Just put him over on the couch.
  • They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
  • Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
► in one respect/in some respects etc
  • And one for the road, the last word in car hi-fi.
  • The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
  • For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
  • In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
  • It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
  • Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
  • Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
  • She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
  • So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
  • They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
► under the same roof/under one roof► seen one ... seen them all► number one/two/three etc seed► shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc► be one ... short of a ...
  • Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
  • She put it to one side, and opened the folder of photographs.
  • Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
  • He was always taking me to one side, telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
► criticize/nag/hassle somebody up one side and down the other► one-minute/two-minute etc silence
  • Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting.
  • As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting.
  • At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting.
  • But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting.
  • I devoured it all almost at one sitting, reading it until my eyes closed.
  • I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
  • It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting.
► it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other► there's more than one way to skin a cat
  • How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
  • Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
  • He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
  • If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
  • Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
  • Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
  • We are back to square one.
  • It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
  • Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
  • The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
  • We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
► have more than one string to your bow
  • Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke.
  • But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke.
  • Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke?
  • His reputation would be lost at a stroke.
  • No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke, because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
  • People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
  • Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
  • The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
  • Then, at a stroke, something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
  • Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
► tell me another (one)
  • Ten to one Marsha will be late.
  • It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
  • Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
  • All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
  • He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
  • I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
  • She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
  • The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
  • They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
  • A higher body count score, for one thing.
  • He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing.
  • The ex-steelworkers, for one thing, have not gone away.
  • Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing, which balances out the supposed benefits.
  • Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
  • Well, for one thing, women have a different experience in life.
► something is just one of those things► it’s one thing to ..., (it’s) another thing to ...,► what with one thing and another
  • But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
  • I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
  • You can be sure one thing leads to another.
► there's only one thing for it
  • Just one damn thing after another.
  • She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
  • Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
► taking one thing with another
  • Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
  • At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
  • See, I can lock the doors all at one time.
  • There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time.
  • This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time.
  • You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time.
  • Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time.
  • It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
  • The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
  • The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
  • The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
  • Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time.
  • We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time.
  • Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
  • He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
  • Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
  • The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
  • There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
► nothing/no one can touch somebody/something► one good turn deserves another► two heads are better than one
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch.
  • Rab figured him the one to watch.
  • Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
  • The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
  • One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
  • As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
  • But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
  • In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
  • In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
  • In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
  • Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
  • My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
  • Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
  • Steve lost $500 in one whack.
  • Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
1used to emphasize a particular person or thing:  One person I find very difficult is Bob. If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s people who bite their nails.2one day/morning/year etc a)on a particular day, morning etc in the past:  One morning I was sitting at my desk when a policeman knocked at my door. b)used to talk about a day, morning etc in the future which is not yet exactly known or decided:  We should go out for a drink one evening. One day she hopes to move to the South Coast.3used to talk about a particular person or thing in comparison with other similar people or things:  Why does my card work in one cash machine and not in another?4It’s one thing to ... it’s (quite) another to used to say that the second thing mentioned is very different from the first, and is often much more difficult to do:  It’s one thing to say we have a goal; it’s another to actually act on it.5for one thing used to introduce a reason for what you have just said:  He couldn’t bring himself to say what he thought. For one thing, she seldom stopped to listen. For another, he doubted that he could make himself clear.6be one crazy woman/be one interesting job etc American English spoken to be a very crazy woman, be a very interesting job etc:  You’re one lucky guy.7formal used before the name of someone you do not know or have not heard of before SYN  a certain:  He was accused of stealing a horse from one Peter Wright.
one1 numberone2 pronounone3 determinerone4 adjectiveone5 noun
oneone4 ●●● S3 W3 adjective [only before noun] Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 the one and only Frank Sinatra
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 Oh look, there’s another one of those birds.
 She spends the day rushing from one meeting to another.
(also one-bedroomed/two-bedroomed apartment British English)· A tiny one-bedroom apartment was all she could afford.
 He considers himself just one of the boys (=not anyone special, but liked by other men).
(=with only one floor)
(=used to say how likely something is)· People in their 30s have a one in 3,000 chance of getting the disease.
(=when something is extremely unlikely)· It must have been a million-to-one chance that we’d meet.
(=only if one particular thing is agreed to)· You can go, but only on one condition - you have to be back by eleven.
(=being with only one other person)· Children with learning difficulties may need one-to-one contact.
· He signed a five-year contract worth $2 million.
· She did a one-year teacher training course.
· The illness left her deaf in one ear.
(=one that will be fixed for one year, two years etc)· The five-year deal is estimated to be worth $17.2 million.
 Henry has always been a deep one. He keeps his views to himself.
 There are 250 blocks of stone, and each one weighs a ton.
 These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
 I got a few extra in case anyone else decides to come. I’ll be making $400 extra a month.
 Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other (=change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite).
· One in seven families is a one-parent family.
· She told Dave that she was his number one fan.
 You’re a fine one to talk (=you are criticizing someone for something you do yourself).
 Beans count as one of your five a day.
· She lived in a one-bedroom flat in Clapham.
· Their home is a humble two-room flat.
(=for one car)· A single garage could boost the price of a house by 8%.
· Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
 Ruby blew out all her candles at one go.
 Your passport is good for another three years.
 She’s a great one for telling stories about her schooldays.
· Our clocks carry a five-year guarantee.
 Charlie drank the whisky in one gulp.
· ‘How old is she?’ ‘Five and a half.’
· My only hope is that someone may have handed in the keys to the police.
(=discuss each other’s ideas and think of good new ones)· Our regular meetings are opportunities to fire ideas off each other.
 a six-inch nail
 Just take it. No one will ever know.
(=a member of your group of friends)
(=last except for one other, two others etc) on the last but one day of his trial
(=a lead of a specific amount)· Goals by Keane and Lennon gave Tottenham a two-goal lead.
(=think only of the advantages you can get for yourself)
 I took one look at the coat and decided it wasn’t worth £50.
 Many people feel guilty after the death of a loved one.
(=lucky people, especially when compared to others who suffered)· They considered themselves the lucky ones because they escaped with only minor injuries.
· A two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress is needed to overturn a presidential veto.
 One job loss is one too many (=one more than is acceptable, needed etc).
 He’s so generous. He’s one in a million.
 a ten-minute bus ride
(=it is something that you will never understand – used humorously)· Where socks disappear to after they’ve been washed is one of life’s little mysteries.
 We asked both John and Jerry, but neither one could offer a satisfactory explanation.
(=used to emphasize that you never thought something) She had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her.
spoken (=used to say that you have never heard something before) ‘The office is going to be closed for six weeks this summer.’ ‘Really? That’s a new one on me.’
(=0.1, 0.2 etc)
· Subtract this number from the total.
· What happens if you multiply a positive number by a negative number?
· You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
(=more than once)· She stayed out all night on more than one occasion.
(=once, and probably more than once)· On at least one occasion he was arrested for robbery.
 He does a one-man show in Las Vegas.
 It’s yours for a one-off payment of only £200.
 Ali gives his opponent the old one-two, and it’s all over.
 the town’s one-way system
 a one-woman show
 I was the only one who disagreed.
 One man was arrested, but the other one got away.
 I chose this coat in the end because the other ones were all too expensive.
 Thanks a lot for being so understanding about all this – I owe you one (=used to thank someone who has helped you, and to say that you are willing to help them in the future)!
· The questionnaire is in two parts: part one asks for your personal details and part two asks for your comments on the course.
 ‘What did you want?’ ‘Oh, nothing in particular.’
 I only eat here because it’s free – one of the perks of the job.
 Cheer up. At least you’re still in one piece.
 Ring Mum and let her know we got here in one piece.
· There is one final point I would like to make.
(=at a time in the past)· At one point I was thinking of studying physics.
 We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other. Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles (=think in two completely different ways) on this issue.
 If you say that again, I’ll pop you one.
· Controlling spending is his top priority.
 He was trying to pull a fast one (=deceive you) when he told you he’d paid.
 a quarter of a mile roughly one quarter of the city’s population It’s about a page and a quarter.
· This is turning into a one-horse race.
 Agassi was at that time ranked sixth in the world.
 a three-room apartment
 He’s one sandwich short of a picnic.
· A path leads down one side of the garden to a paved area.
(=of various different sorts)· Quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another.
 The computer industry is the one bright spot in the economy at the moment.
 The police are now back at square one in their investigation.
(=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time) Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
(=at a time in the past)· At one stage I had to tell him to calm down.
· Until recently, the country was a one-party state.
(=in which you can only drive in one direction)· He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
· A three-day strike is planned for next week.
(=the main suspect)· I was the one who found her. And that makes me the number one suspect for her murder.
 Two-thirds of the profits are given to charities.
(also a single ticket British English) (=a ticket to a place but not back again)· I bought a one-way ticket to London.
(=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour)
 ‘Do you want tea or coffee?’ ‘I don’t mind – whichever one you’re making.’
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • the architect's one and only significant achievement
  • Buckingham Palace stresses that this is the one and only way to paint a Monarch.
  • He was the one and only Jimmy Wheeler.
  • It is likely to be their one and only chance.
  • It represents the one and only fundamental urge at the heart of all human suffering!
  • Mitleid, and he identifies it as the one and only inspiration of inherently moral action.
  • My one and only love, keep purring in my arms.
  • That's the one and only test.
  • The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
► one after another/one after the other► one-all/two-all etc
  • We always call one another during the holidays.
  • Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.
  • His mum and I held one another up.
  • I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
  • Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another.
  • They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
  • This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
  • Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
  • At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
  • Besides, he got his point across, one way or another, and usually in Chicago style.
  • It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another.
  • Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.
  • Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another.
  • The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
  • Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
  • To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
  • Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another.
  • He's had one problem after another this year.
  • As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another.
  • Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
  • Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
  • Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
  • Just one after another on the streets.
  • On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
  • The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.
  • This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
► anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
  • Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.
  • But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
  • Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
  • Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
  • Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
  • She goes one better than last year.
  • The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
  • They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.
► not a bit/not one bit
  • The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
► there’s one born every minute► the last but one/the next but two etc► I/you can count somebody/something on (the fingers of) one hand
  • "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."
► do one
  • It goes in one ear and out the other.
► put all your eggs in one basket
  • Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
  • A crazy notion if ever there was one.
  • An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
  • Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
  • He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
  • Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
  • My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
  • My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
► one in every three/two in every hundred etc► keep/have one eye/half an eye on somebody/something
  • It was one in the eye for the old order.
  • A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
  • Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
  • Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
  • Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
  • I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
  • The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
  • She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
  • Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
► go off on one
  • "I'm off to work." Alright, have a good one."
  • And you have a good one.
  • My car's on fire? Boy, that's a good one!
  • The idea of John getting sick, the idea of John coming down with something: that's a good one.
  • At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
  • At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
  • At half past two this morning my wife died.
  • It was half past three in the morning.
  • She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
  • The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
  • They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
► can do something with one hand (tied) behind your back► have you heard the one about ...► I’ve heard that one before
  • It was one hell of a party.
  • Ray's a hell of a salesman.
  • She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
  • But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
  • DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
  • It's a hell of a game.
  • It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
  • It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
  • That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
  • They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
  • We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
  • Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
  • I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
  • I agree with you a hundred percent.
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota.
  • There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
  • We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
  • Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
  • Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
  • By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
  • In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
  • Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
  • Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
  • Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
  • This Persian carpet is one of a kind.
  • Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
  • Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
  • Since his patterns were often one of a kind, he relied little on machinery.
► leave something aside/to one side
  • You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck.
  • An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
  • By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
  • Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
  • I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
  • Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
  • Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck.
  • One for luck, and farewell.
► lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
  • The crowd rise to their feet as one man.
  • The... whole North arose as one man...
  • Undaunted, Athletico played as one man.
  • Ron looked like he'd had one too many.
► one man’s meat is another man’s poison► no one in their right mind ...► be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind► be in a minority of one► not think/believe etc for one minute► one minute ... the next (minute) ...► one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
  • His hand had not wavered for a moment.
  • His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
  • I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
  • I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
  • Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment.
► be neither one thing nor the other► nice one!
  • But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
  • This change is not a one way process.
  • We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
► one o'clock/two o'clock etc
  • I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
  • And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
  • At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
  • He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
  • Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
  • Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
  • Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
  • Why is it always the odd man out?
  • Funny thing, I hadn't noticed before what a one-horse town this was.
  • He himself grew up in slums, in one-horse towns, in abandoned oil fields.
  • It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy, though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
  • Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
  • Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
  • The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
  • The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
  • The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
  • Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
  • That guy has a one-track mind.
► I’ve only got one pair of hands► somebody puts his pants on one leg at a time
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece!
  • I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.
  • The china arrived all in one piece, thank God.
  • Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
  • All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece.
  • All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece, go home, and get a job.
  • At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
  • It should fall out in one piece.
  • It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
  • Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece.
  • The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece.
  • When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
► pull the other one (it’s got bells on)
  • The city faced the one-two punch of an earthquake followed by a recession.
  • And heart disease took a one-two punch.
  • They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
  • Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
  • Just put him over on the couch.
  • They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
  • Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
► in one respect/in some respects etc
  • And one for the road, the last word in car hi-fi.
  • The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
  • For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
  • In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
  • It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
  • Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
  • Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
  • She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
  • So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
  • They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
► under the same roof/under one roof► seen one ... seen them all► number one/two/three etc seed► shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc► be one ... short of a ...
  • Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
  • She put it to one side, and opened the folder of photographs.
  • Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
  • He was always taking me to one side, telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
► criticize/nag/hassle somebody up one side and down the other► one-minute/two-minute etc silence
  • Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting.
  • As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting.
  • At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting.
  • But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting.
  • I devoured it all almost at one sitting, reading it until my eyes closed.
  • I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
  • It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting.
► it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other► there's more than one way to skin a cat
  • How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
  • Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
  • He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
  • If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
  • Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
  • Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
  • We are back to square one.
  • It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
  • Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
  • The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
  • We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
► have more than one string to your bow
  • Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke.
  • But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke.
  • Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke?
  • His reputation would be lost at a stroke.
  • No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke, because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
  • People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
  • Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
  • The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
  • Then, at a stroke, something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
  • Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
► tell me another (one)
  • Ten to one Marsha will be late.
  • It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
  • Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
  • All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
  • He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
  • I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
  • She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
  • The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
  • They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
  • A higher body count score, for one thing.
  • He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing.
  • The ex-steelworkers, for one thing, have not gone away.
  • Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing, which balances out the supposed benefits.
  • Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
  • Well, for one thing, women have a different experience in life.
► something is just one of those things► it’s one thing to ..., (it’s) another thing to ...,► what with one thing and another
  • But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
  • I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
  • You can be sure one thing leads to another.
► there's only one thing for it
  • Just one damn thing after another.
  • She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
  • Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
► taking one thing with another
  • Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
  • At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
  • See, I can lock the doors all at one time.
  • There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time.
  • This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time.
  • You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time.
  • Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time.
  • It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
  • The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
  • The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
  • The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
  • Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time.
  • We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time.
  • Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
  • He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
  • Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
  • The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
  • There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
► nothing/no one can touch somebody/something► one good turn deserves another► two heads are better than one
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch.
  • Rab figured him the one to watch.
  • Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
  • The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
  • One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
  • As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
  • But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
  • In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
  • In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
  • In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
  • Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
  • My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
  • Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
  • Steve lost $500 in one whack.
  • Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
1only:  Her one concern was to get to the door without being seen. Claire is the one person I can trust.2one and only a)used to emphasize that someone is very famous:  the one and only Frank Sinatra b)used to emphasize that something is the only one of its kind:  I even tried my one and only French joke on them.
one1 numberone2 pronounone3 determinerone4 adjectiveone5 noun
oneone5 noun [countable usually plural] American English Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Do you have any ones?
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 Oh look, there’s another one of those birds.
 She spends the day rushing from one meeting to another.
(also one-bedroomed/two-bedroomed apartment British English)· A tiny one-bedroom apartment was all she could afford.
 He considers himself just one of the boys (=not anyone special, but liked by other men).
(=with only one floor)
(=used to say how likely something is)· People in their 30s have a one in 3,000 chance of getting the disease.
(=when something is extremely unlikely)· It must have been a million-to-one chance that we’d meet.
(=only if one particular thing is agreed to)· You can go, but only on one condition - you have to be back by eleven.
(=being with only one other person)· Children with learning difficulties may need one-to-one contact.
· He signed a five-year contract worth $2 million.
· She did a one-year teacher training course.
· The illness left her deaf in one ear.
(=one that will be fixed for one year, two years etc)· The five-year deal is estimated to be worth $17.2 million.
 Henry has always been a deep one. He keeps his views to himself.
 There are 250 blocks of stone, and each one weighs a ton.
 These are issues that affect each and every one of us.
 I got a few extra in case anyone else decides to come. I’ll be making $400 extra a month.
 Advertisements seem to go from one extreme to the other (=change from one extreme thing to something totally opposite).
· One in seven families is a one-parent family.
· She told Dave that she was his number one fan.
 You’re a fine one to talk (=you are criticizing someone for something you do yourself).
 Beans count as one of your five a day.
· She lived in a one-bedroom flat in Clapham.
· Their home is a humble two-room flat.
(=for one car)· A single garage could boost the price of a house by 8%.
· Traditional customs are passed from one generation to the next.
 Ruby blew out all her candles at one go.
 Your passport is good for another three years.
 She’s a great one for telling stories about her schooldays.
· Our clocks carry a five-year guarantee.
 Charlie drank the whisky in one gulp.
· ‘How old is she?’ ‘Five and a half.’
· My only hope is that someone may have handed in the keys to the police.
(=discuss each other’s ideas and think of good new ones)· Our regular meetings are opportunities to fire ideas off each other.
 a six-inch nail
 Just take it. No one will ever know.
(=a member of your group of friends)
(=last except for one other, two others etc) on the last but one day of his trial
(=a lead of a specific amount)· Goals by Keane and Lennon gave Tottenham a two-goal lead.
(=think only of the advantages you can get for yourself)
 I took one look at the coat and decided it wasn’t worth £50.
 Many people feel guilty after the death of a loved one.
(=lucky people, especially when compared to others who suffered)· They considered themselves the lucky ones because they escaped with only minor injuries.
· A two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress is needed to overturn a presidential veto.
 One job loss is one too many (=one more than is acceptable, needed etc).
 He’s so generous. He’s one in a million.
 a ten-minute bus ride
(=it is something that you will never understand – used humorously)· Where socks disappear to after they’ve been washed is one of life’s little mysteries.
 We asked both John and Jerry, but neither one could offer a satisfactory explanation.
(=used to emphasize that you never thought something) She had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her.
spoken (=used to say that you have never heard something before) ‘The office is going to be closed for six weeks this summer.’ ‘Really? That’s a new one on me.’
(=0.1, 0.2 etc)
· Subtract this number from the total.
· What happens if you multiply a positive number by a negative number?
· You can’t divide a prime number by any other number, except 1.
(=more than once)· She stayed out all night on more than one occasion.
(=once, and probably more than once)· On at least one occasion he was arrested for robbery.
 He does a one-man show in Las Vegas.
 It’s yours for a one-off payment of only £200.
 Ali gives his opponent the old one-two, and it’s all over.
 the town’s one-way system
 a one-woman show
 I was the only one who disagreed.
 One man was arrested, but the other one got away.
 I chose this coat in the end because the other ones were all too expensive.
 Thanks a lot for being so understanding about all this – I owe you one (=used to thank someone who has helped you, and to say that you are willing to help them in the future)!
· The questionnaire is in two parts: part one asks for your personal details and part two asks for your comments on the course.
 ‘What did you want?’ ‘Oh, nothing in particular.’
 I only eat here because it’s free – one of the perks of the job.
 Cheer up. At least you’re still in one piece.
 Ring Mum and let her know we got here in one piece.
· There is one final point I would like to make.
(=at a time in the past)· At one point I was thinking of studying physics.
 We have enormous wealth at one pole, and poverty and misery at the other. Washington and Beijing are at opposite poles (=think in two completely different ways) on this issue.
 If you say that again, I’ll pop you one.
· Controlling spending is his top priority.
 He was trying to pull a fast one (=deceive you) when he told you he’d paid.
 a quarter of a mile roughly one quarter of the city’s population It’s about a page and a quarter.
· This is turning into a one-horse race.
 Agassi was at that time ranked sixth in the world.
 a three-room apartment
 He’s one sandwich short of a picnic.
· A path leads down one side of the garden to a paved area.
(=of various different sorts)· Quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another.
 The computer industry is the one bright spot in the economy at the moment.
 The police are now back at square one in their investigation.
(=used when you start something again because you were not successful the first time) Okay, let’s go back to square one and try again.
(=at a time in the past)· At one stage I had to tell him to calm down.
· Until recently, the country was a one-party state.
(=in which you can only drive in one direction)· He was caught driving the wrong way down a one-way street.
· A three-day strike is planned for next week.
(=the main suspect)· I was the one who found her. And that makes me the number one suspect for her murder.
 Two-thirds of the profits are given to charities.
(also a single ticket British English) (=a ticket to a place but not back again)· I bought a one-way ticket to London.
(=ten minutes, twenty minutes etc before a particular hour)
 ‘Do you want tea or coffee?’ ‘I don’t mind – whichever one you’re making.’
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· There are some very good ones around.· With primary pupils you get a lot of really complicated questions, and sometimes really good ones too.· The best known ones are the Kuder Preference test and the Strong-Campbell interest inventory.· Bad policies in the past may continue to cause problems, long after they have been replaced by good ones.· Some good ones to try are suggested in the table.
· Since then virtually every small printer, and most large ones, have changed from metal to film.· A Small Hermit Crabs will not damage inverts, but larger ones will.· Smaller weekly or fortnightly water changes of 10-20% are preferable to large monthly ones.
· The little ones were farmed out.
· Ironically, while they erected 660 churches, they closed thirty-three for every twenty-one new ones they built.· Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones, composing new ones.· They cultivate many types of fungus and are always searching for new ones to experiment with.· As far as methods go, we may learn as much from their old techniques as from their new ones.· It has saved some breweries from takeover, and encouraged new ones to open.· During the three winter months, almost the entire squadron changed - well-known faces gradually disappearing and being replaced by new ones.· Presumably your clothes will need to be altered or some new ones purchased.· My first thought was to rush to the nearest d-i-y superstore to buy new ones.
· Jaq now surmised that Googol was reciting his own verses under his breath, polishing old ones, composing new ones.· How do I remove the old ones without damaging the wall?· Face despised face, the older ones moving in front of the younger ones, the weaker ones giving way to the stronger ones.
· It turned out she was just as fed up as me, and we were not the only ones.· Just for those few minutes we were the only ones in the audience who knew what was to come.· There were five of them at one table and they were the only ones still outside.· But the only ones who should be scared, outraged or psychotic are the governments and corporations, and perhaps the journalists.· I used to think that we Met girls were the only ones awake and having to brave the elements.· And you and I might be the only ones between your friend and the bullet.
· But while it happens, the big banks will be taking the strain of the smaller ones.· I had six dozen smaller ones for the tape recorder and my torch.· So far most of the business successes are small family-owned ones: groceries, restaurants, garages.· This is another reason to avoid small units - far better to have a single big unit than two small ones.· To minimise the chances of failure, make sure you have a few big Mobs rather than lots of small ones.· Oh, and skips: two big and two small ones.
· The older age-groups were somewhat less likely than the younger ones to have an occupational pension.· Face despised face, the older ones moving in front of the younger ones, the weaker ones giving way to the stronger ones.· Mostly they died of shock, particularly the younger ones, so it was a bonus when one recovered.· So I try to put the younger ones off acquiring one until they're older.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Mahmoud and Owen looked at each other, then with one accord started walking.
► one after another/one after the other► one-all/two-all etc
  • We always call one another during the holidays.
  • Geschke and Warnock are mirror images of one another, right down to the silver beards.
  • His mum and I held one another up.
  • I want them to treat one another with courtesy and respect.
  • Prisoners tried to sell saucepans to one another.
  • They had barely greeted one another when Pam demanded to know what Margaret thought she was doing.
  • This makes the wings very soft to the touch and probably cuts down noise from feathers moving against one another during flight.
  • Women ran screaming with children in their arms, and old folk tripped over one another trying to escape the slaughter.
  • At least 50 percent of the Soviet budget in one form or another goes to the military defense complex.
  • Besides, he got his point across, one way or another, and usually in Chicago style.
  • It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another.
  • Other speakers adapt to far more, perhaps to most of them, at one time or another.
  • Some twenty percent of all Oscar-winning actors, actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another.
  • The plates slide toward one direction or another and, inevitably, their ridges move off the hot spots that found them.
  • Three, in one form or another, are still in the budget bill passed by Congress and vetoed by President Clinton.
  • To enhance our chances of making such discoveries many of us use maps of one kind or another.
  • Ever since we moved into this house, it's been one problem after another.
  • He's had one problem after another this year.
  • As they came ashore herrings fell off, one after another.
  • Autumn drew on in Mitford, and one after another, the golden days were illumined with changing light.
  • Deliberate and unhurried, he tried them one after another in the lock under the white, nineteenth-century china handle.
  • Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
  • Just one after another on the streets.
  • On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
  • The hummingbird which feeds on it must therefore visit many plants, one after another.
  • This central area was the scene of three great changes, one after another.
► anywhere between one and ten/anywhere from one to ten etc
  • Beth Wolff, president of her own residential real estate company, likes to go one better.
  • But even if Forbes loses his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he may still go one better than his father.
  • Ford went one better and put 60 two-stroke Fiestas on the roads.
  • Laker's return of 9 for 37 was outstanding, but he was to go one better when the Aussies followed on.
  • Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
  • She goes one better than last year.
  • The Bristol & West have now gone one better than the standard endowment mortgage.
  • They have followed each other up the ladder, but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better.
► not a bit/not one bit
  • The text can be put on an overhead and revealed a bit at a time.
► there’s one born every minute► the last but one/the next but two etc► I/you can count somebody/something on (the fingers of) one hand
  • "Everything okay?" "Oh, it's just been one of those days."
► do one
  • It goes in one ear and out the other.
► put all your eggs in one basket
  • Rats have been branded public enemy No. 1 in Bangladesh.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
  • A crazy notion if ever there was one.
  • An obstinate fellow, if ever there was one, and a very elusive one too.
  • Exercise is the original fountain of youth if ever there was one.
  • He is a product of the system if ever there was one.
  • Here is a time warp if ever there was one.
  • My favourite Caithness loch is Heilen, near Castletown; an expert's loch if ever there was one.
  • My son, however, is a sports fanatic if ever there was one.
► one in every three/two in every hundred etc► keep/have one eye/half an eye on somebody/something
  • It was one in the eye for the old order.
  • A single company can eliminate 74,000 jobs in one fell swoop.
  • Can you imagine it, to have grown up insane and then in one fell swoop to achieve sanity?
  • Compton had not been laid out, like Lakewood, in one fell swoop.
  • Despite the drop-off, analysts said they were encouraged by the elimination of the securities in one fell swoop.
  • I think it might solve the whole problem in one fell swoop.
  • The most difficult thing afoot is to keep our problem child from blowing it in one fell swoop.
  • She sounded like she had one foot in the grave.
  • Saucy Cecil Parkinson lets his fingers do the talking about the one that got away.
► go off on one
  • "I'm off to work." Alright, have a good one."
  • And you have a good one.
  • My car's on fire? Boy, that's a good one!
  • The idea of John getting sick, the idea of John coming down with something: that's a good one.
  • At half past one the men got up and checked their equipment, gathering several sticks as well.
  • At half past three he wanted to die, or to kill somebody.
  • At half past two this morning my wife died.
  • It was half past three in the morning.
  • She arrived at the Herald building at half past three, and walked past the uniformed commissionaire to the lift.
  • The return journey was supposed to start at half past three but there would always be a few people missing.
  • They'd all been given leaflets about it at half past three.
► can do something with one hand (tied) behind your back► have you heard the one about ...► I’ve heard that one before
  • It was one hell of a party.
  • Ray's a hell of a salesman.
  • She's drinking a hell of a lot these days.
  • But that's probably because the firm was in a hell of a mess when he took over.
  • DEVIL-MAY-CARE actress Liz Hurley made a hell of a Beelzeboob at a charity fashion bash.
  • It's a hell of a game.
  • It had one hell of a noise, too, if you were close to it.
  • It would do everyone a hell of a lot of good to hear you.
  • That's a hell of a way to go, I say.
  • They had a hell of a time finding adequate housing.
  • We rode on to Safford, hit a bar and had a hell of a good time.
  • Even that record has now gone, Sluman holing in one.
  • I'm not a hundred percent sure where she lives.
  • I agree with you a hundred percent.
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • It was none of her business and it mattered to her not one iota.
  • There is not an iota of evidence that such standardised testing has improved education anywhere in the world.
  • We have heard not one iota of evidence or heard any defense the suspect may have in this case.
  • Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
  • Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
  • By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
  • In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
  • Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
  • Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
  • Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
  • This Persian carpet is one of a kind.
  • Another comment was that the distinction: inside/outside reminded one of a kind of depersonalised network analysis.
  • Each Keymer clay tile is a work of art, guaranteed one of a kind by the handprint of its maker.
  • Since his patterns were often one of a kind, he relied little on machinery.
► leave something aside/to one side
  • You get three kisses for your birthday, and one for luck.
  • An extra teaspoonful for luck could well be disaster.
  • By now the only part of Mr. Rainsford's brewery left standing was the taproom kept for luck like an old horseshoe.
  • Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text.
  • I gave him one for luck on the back of his neck.
  • Is he the kind of man to lend you the rings for luck for a short time?
  • Now he gave it one last violent shake for luck.
  • One for luck, and farewell.
► lurch from one crisis/extreme etc to another
  • The crowd rise to their feet as one man.
  • The... whole North arose as one man...
  • Undaunted, Athletico played as one man.
  • Ron looked like he'd had one too many.
► one man’s meat is another man’s poison► no one in their right mind ...► be of one mind/of the same mind/of like mind► be in a minority of one► not think/believe etc for one minute► one minute ... the next (minute) ...► one moment ... the next/from one moment to the next
  • His hand had not wavered for a moment.
  • His leader did not believe for one moment the protestations of innocence.
  • I do not concede for a moment that this is a devolution measure.
  • I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here.
  • Neither team will half-step, not even for a moment.
► be neither one thing nor the other► nice one!
  • But not a one of them was able to stay awake through the night, so they all were beheaded.
  • This change is not a one way process.
  • We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
► one o'clock/two o'clock etc
  • I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
  • And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
  • At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
  • He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
  • Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
  • Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
  • Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
  • Why is it always the odd man out?
  • Funny thing, I hadn't noticed before what a one-horse town this was.
  • He himself grew up in slums, in one-horse towns, in abandoned oil fields.
  • It was a jibe that nearly became a prophecy, though Cambridge were left with more of a one-horse race.
  • Intuit is now aiming to become a one-stop shopping source for anyone looking to do home banking.
  • Once combined, the companies hope to provide one-stop shopping-all of their services to customers on one bill.
  • The attraction to consumers, Schneider said, would be one-stop shopping and possibly extra services.
  • The companies' will explore ways to provide one-stop shopping for utilities that want to automate many of their business functions.
  • The opening would give many franchisers their first permanent showrooms and allow for one-stop shopping by potential franchisees.
  • Their goal is to become the one-stop shopping mall of cyberspace.
  • That guy has a one-track mind.
► I’ve only got one pair of hands► somebody puts his pants on one leg at a time
  • Absolutely I agree one hundred percent.
  • All of our history, we stayed just about one hundred percent occupancy.
  • It is, of course, a hundred percent certain that this triggering device is battery-powered.
  • No wonder the others felt he was not one hundred percent reliable anymore.
  • She hoped so, but she wasn't a hundred percent certain.
  • The unit included a spinning mill within its plant, producing one hundred percent wool yarn.
  • There was no doubt that Kirsty was one hundred percent MacKay.
  • Therefore, even firms that are a hundred percent domestic get an extra lift from lower interest rates.
  • I don't know how we got the piano down in one piece!
  • I was extremely relieved when my son came back from the warzone all in one piece.
  • The china arrived all in one piece, thank God.
  • Unlike Ed, Josh returned from the war in one piece.
  • All she wanted was for me to come back in one piece.
  • All you wanted to do was get out of it in one piece, go home, and get a job.
  • At one point, maybe, it was when they arrived home in one piece from school.
  • It should fall out in one piece.
  • It would explain how Greg manages to be in one piece while the Lorelei is nothing but a few planks of driftwood.
  • Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece.
  • The fatty skin covering should easily lift off in one piece.
  • When they get there the china cabinet is still in one piece but the budgie is dead.
  • She had done nothing wrong, yet between them Rourke and Rebecca were making her feel like public enemy number one.
  • Taylor has turned into public enemy number one.
► pull the other one (it’s got bells on)
  • The city faced the one-two punch of an earthquake followed by a recession.
  • And heart disease took a one-two punch.
  • They think they've found a way to put one over on the welfare office.
  • Cantor was pleased to have put one over on their first violinist, Sol Minskoff.
  • Just put him over on the couch.
  • They were trying to put one over on us and would no longer get away with it.
  • Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
► in one respect/in some respects etc
  • And one for the road, the last word in car hi-fi.
  • The band's sound was metal and punk and rap all rolled into one.
  • For many, this outsized jamboree became both a new Pentecost and a New Jerusalem rolled into one.
  • In practice, stages 2 and 3 are often rolled into one.
  • It had all the elements one finds in several different testimonies all artfully rolled into one.
  • Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
  • Lovable Manuel is quite the tyrant, a mini Papi and Mami rolled into one.
  • She was a fallen Magdalene and a lamenting dolorosa rolled into one.
  • So the service offers a payment system and a management information system rolled into one.
  • They represent a kind of hybrid architect, designer, engineer, set builder and scenario maker, all rolled into one.
► under the same roof/under one roof► seen one ... seen them all► number one/two/three etc seed► shoot to number one/to the top of the charts etc► be one ... short of a ...
  • Graham has no plans to fly this aircraft at present and will put it to one side as soon as assembly and testing is complete.
  • She put it to one side, and opened the folder of photographs.
  • Eventually Johnny drew him to one side with a shock-haired young reporter who sported horn-rimmed glasses and a velvet bow-tie.
  • He was always taking me to one side, telling me what I should and shouldn't do.
► criticize/nag/hassle somebody up one side and down the other► one-minute/two-minute etc silence
  • Jeff ate a whole bag of potato chips in one sitting.
  • As in my landscapes, I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting.
  • At other times the sessions are intended to serve the need of teachers of five of six languages at one sitting.
  • But if you get a copy, save it for when you can read it at one sitting.
  • I devoured it all almost at one sitting, reading it until my eyes closed.
  • I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
  • It is an interesting book to dip into, but it can not be read at one sitting.
► it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other► there's more than one way to skin a cat
  • How often have they bribed city workers to slip one over on an ignorant city council?
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • After the next break Sally is moved to go back to square one.
  • Arms races sometimes culminate in extinction, and then a new arms race may begin back at square one.
  • He was back to pounding nails again, back to square one for the eighth or tenth time.
  • If something didn't break, and soon, they would be back to square one.
  • Never shut the filter down, or the beneficial bacteria will die and you will be back to square one.
  • Richard told me he felt like he was back to square one.
  • We are back to square one.
  • It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
  • Money With better management of resources you will be able to stay one step ahead.
  • The reason Chappy is moving around so much is to keep one step ahead I suppose.
  • We don't want to sell him but we have to keep one step ahead.
► have more than one string to your bow
  • Brian saw a chance of solving all his problems at one stroke.
  • But as the 1980s began it seemed as if all the uncertainty had been resolved at a stroke.
  • Gardening in tomorrow's world Future pest control at a stroke?
  • His reputation would be lost at a stroke.
  • No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke, because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere.
  • People pretty much looked at a stroke as a permanent condition: Once you had it, it was there.
  • Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
  • The lek paradox is thus solved at a stroke.
  • Then, at a stroke, something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose.
  • Let me tell you something - if I catch you kids smoking, you'll be grounded for a whole year at least.
► tell me another (one)
  • Ten to one Marsha will be late.
  • It's ten to one you'll get the job - you're perfect for it.
  • Stop worrying, Mum. Ten to one Liz has just gone round to a friend's house.
  • All you've done is hold out the whole day against odds of ten to one.
  • He honed his pilots' aerial skills to so fine a point that their kill ratio reached ten to one.
  • I could have got odds of ten to one and made a fortune.
  • She reached the restaurant at ten to one, precisely on time.
  • The first time you sleep with some one ten to one they're going to be a stranger.
  • They go using mallets and chisels, and ten to one they'd extend the fracture line.
  • A higher body count score, for one thing.
  • He was responsible for Loredana's death, for one thing.
  • The ex-steelworkers, for one thing, have not gone away.
  • Their love of wine leads to raised levels of alcoholism, for one thing, which balances out the supposed benefits.
  • Well, for one thing she takes her readers and our intellect seriously.
  • Well, for one thing, women have a different experience in life.
► something is just one of those things► it’s one thing to ..., (it’s) another thing to ...,► what with one thing and another
  • But one thing leads to another, and Sister Helen finds herself challenged to put her beliefs on the line.
  • I know that and I do understand why, but one thing leads to another, you know how it is.
  • You can be sure one thing leads to another.
► there's only one thing for it
  • Just one damn thing after another.
  • She was merely coping with one thing after another, not achieving.
  • Then it was one thing after another, his obese stage, his alcoholic stage.
► taking one thing with another
  • Sunday, June 1: Boy did I tie one on last night.
  • At one time forests covered about 20% of Lebanon.
  • See, I can lock the doors all at one time.
  • There aren't many places around here where you can cater for fifty or so people at one time.
  • This word processor allows you to work with two documents at one time.
  • You feel like you are going in twelve different directions at one time.
  • Although you can see only 80 characters on the screen at one time.
  • It has been established that at one time or another during her life she had been wounded by all three arrows.
  • The city at one time had talked to Edwards Theaters about building a multiplex theater there, but those talks faltered.
  • The curriculum, which at one time had seemed novel, barely changed from decade to decade.
  • The somewhat better-known Sigmund Freud at one time worked with Janet.
  • Up to 24 packages can be accessed at one time.
  • We cured all our bloaters and our kippers, at one time.
  • Banana trees dropped their rotting fruit, which lay one on top of the other, dying in layers.
  • He taught Callie that when she added, she should stack the numbers one on top of the other.
  • Soon our hands are together, perhaps one on top of the other, pointing to the words.
  • The flour-dusted man with the two coats, one on top of the other, ran a grocery store.
  • There were books piled on three shelves, one on top of the other.
► nothing/no one can touch somebody/something► one good turn deserves another► two heads are better than one
  • It became extraordinarily difficult for them to speak with one voice on critical issues.
  • Salomon Brothers was speaking with one voice, and it was loud.
  • This has already raised fears among foreign governments that the administration is not speaking with one voice on vital international issues.
  • Where Clinton speaks with one voice, they speak with several, weakening their philosophical case.
  • Her association with Feist has moved sales of her own books up several notches, and this will one to watch.
  • Rab figured him the one to watch.
  • Shiatsu massage is the current one to watch for.
  • The one to watch would be tomorrow morning's debate on the Government's immigration policy.
  • One way or another, Roberts will pay for what he's done.
  • As you grow older, some of those uncertainties - such as whether or not you are lovable - are settled one way or another.
  • But the fact is that the way we live our lives often assumes a belief about them, one way or another.
  • In one way or another, all these therapies seem to have an effect on the electrical balances of the body.
  • In one way or another, the representatives will be compared with the total client system.
  • In one way or another, whatever happened, instinct told him that they would both survive.
  • Many others were involved in small business issues one way or another.
  • My gut feeling is that one way or another Congress will pull through.
  • Then one way or another he would have to deal with Capshaw.
  • Steve lost $500 in one whack.
  • Cotey -- real slow and in words of one syllable -- and then diagram them in stick figures with Crayolas.
 a piece of paper money worth one dollar:  I don’t have any ones.
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