Collocations for "grass"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "grass" in context.
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grass
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [green, brown, tall, long] grass
- [ornamental, perennial] grasses
- is [hiding, lurking] in the [tall, long] grass
- is [lying, sitting] on the grass
- is [lying] in the grass
- are grazing on the grass
- [mow, water, cut] the grass
- the grass needs to be [mowed]
- the grass is too [long, tall, short, brown]
- the fire [scorched, burned] the grass
- a [hill] covered in grass
- the grass is (always) greener on the other side (of the fence)
- slang: is smoking grass
- slang, UK: don't be such a grass!
- UK: the [actress, president, police officer] went to grass
- a grass [hut, skirt]
- has a grass lawn
- have grass stains on my [pants, knees]
- grass [seeds, clippings]
- grass-court tennis
- a grass-covered [hill, field, valley]
- slang, UK: grassed on [him, the suspect, his friend]
- slang, UK: grass up your [friends, coworkers]
- slang, UK: grassed them up (to the police)
- grass [your lawn, the garden, a patch]
- grassed to [hide, conceal, offer, provide]
- [land, street] was grassed over
'grass' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
barley
- bed
- beef
- bite
- blade
- bound
- carpet
- caterpillar
- clay
- clump
- cutting
- dew
- dirty
- fall
- flatten
- fringe
- frost
- graze
- green
- hay
- knee
- lay
- lush
- marsh
- meat
- moist
- moisture
- new
- numb
- ocean
- patch
- peck
- pillow
- pitch
- roll
- rusty
- scent
- scrape
- scythe
- side
- slime
- snake
- snooze
- sod
- sprawl
- sprout
- stalk
- straight
- sun
- tall