Colocaciones–Significado 2: money that is offered to people for helping the police to solve a crime or catch a criminalverbsoffer a reward(alsoput up a rewardinformal)The store has offered a £500 reward for information leading to a conviction.claim a rewardHe contacted the police, hoping...
[transitive]to try to catch fish in a particular area of water→fishingOther nations are forbidden to fish the waters within 200 miles of the coast.4→fish for compliments5[intransitive]to try to find out information, without asking directly‘Are you here with your wife?’ she asked, ...
(=permanently close a window or door by fixing something across it using nails)The windows had been nailed up.2informaltocatchsomeone andprovethat they areguiltyof acrimeor something badIt took us 10 years to nail the guy who killed our daughter.nail somebody for somethingThe state police ...
horrible flu bug.a 24-hour/2-day etc bugThe doctor says it’s just a 24-hour bug.verbshave a bugTwo of us had a nasty bug on holiday.catch/get a bugSix out of ten travellers get a stomach bug abroad.pick up a bug(=catch one)He seems to pick up every bug going.a bug is ...
re not satisfied with the service you’re getting.have (good) reason to complainWe felt we had good reason to complain about the food at the hotel.have little/no reason to complainThe school is good and parents have little reason to complain.have cause to complainPatients sometimes have ...
connect one piece of electronic equipment to another piece of equipment or to an electricity supplyhook something to/into somethingHook one of the telephone lines to the fax machine.→hook into something→hook something → up→hook up to something→hook up with somebody/something→ VerTabla de ...
[transitive]to throw something up into the air and let it fall to the groundThe crowd cheered, banging pots and tossing confetti into the air.6→toss a pancake7[transitive]to move pieces of food about in a small amount ofliquidso that they become covered with the liquidToss the carrots ...
3 avoiding bad result used to say that something bad could happen if someone does not do a particular thing Wear your coat or you’ll catch cold. Hurry up or we’ll be late. I had to defend myself or else he’d have killed me. You’d better hand over the money, or else (=...
•Politicianshave come up with manytrickstoevadecampaignspendinglimits.•Ayachtorfishingvesselwould find it quiteeasytoevadeour controls and could carry large amounts ofcontraband.•Hooligansoften takecaretoevadepoliceescortsand toslipintorivalterritoriesunobserved.•But will thesestoriesactually help ...
acrossmypath, and from themouthof the Eske,curlewscalled shrilly to one another likeowls.•Two days later, for the first time in 10 years, a few murresswooped downon the rock.•It harasses other gulls until they drop their hard-won food and thenswoops downto catch it - often in ...