Collocations for "peg"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "peg" in context.
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peg
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a peg to hang your [coat, hat] on
- hang your [coat] on the peg
- a peg by the door to hang your [coat] on
- a [square, round] peg
- cribbage pegs
- use pegs to keep score
- UK: need to buy more clothes pegs
- we've run out of pegs
- secure the [tarp, tent, flaps] with pegs
- tent pegs
- UK: buy clothes off-the-peg
- bring the [volume, music, pitch] down a peg
- idiom: (like putting) square pegs in round holes
- slang: he needs to be taken down a peg (or two)
- slang: that will take him down a peg (or two)!
- slang: that brought him down a peg (or two)!
- has a peg leg
- on a peg board
- pegged them as [losers, cheaters, winners]
- [never would have, had not] pegged them for [losers]
- peg the ball [to second base, for a home run]
- was pegged with a [ball, falling apple]
- was pegged in the [head, face, stomach]
- pegged the [clothes] (up) on the [line, washing line, rack]
- the [clothes] were pegged (out) on the [line]
- peg the [washing, clothes, bedsheets, laundry] out to dry
- peg down a [sheet, canopy, towel]
- peg a [sheet] down
- pegged the tent [to the ground, into the ground, into the soil]
- peg the [dollar] to [the pound, gold]
- peg [rates, dividends, interest rates]
- peg the [lead, team] back
- [the lead] was pegged back
- has a peg leg
'peg' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):