Re: Help with collocations, please

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>>Word 2007 won't let me read this. "Rock paper" somehow implies the
>>existence of scissors...
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>(What, apart from that, does it mean?)

Rock - solid, reliable... BrE slang, and me being flippant, as per usual.

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>Just a few quickies:
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>properly so called
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>set phrase (!)
>stock epithet
>prime object, primary object, principal object
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>hard and fast
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Thanks for some excellent examples.

DC

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