Collocations for "pinch"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "pinch" in context.
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pinch
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- gave him a pinch on the [cheek, butt]
- a [hard, painful] pinch
- a bruise from the pinch
- idiom: [families, companies] are really feeling the pinch
- idiom: am in a bit of a pinch!
- idiom: use [it] if you get into a pinch
- idiom: could [go, ask, try] in a pinch
- UK, idiom: could [go, ask, try] at a pinch
- add a pinch of [salt, cinnamon]
- you only need a pinch
- it just takes a pinch (of)
- said with a pinch of [humor, satire, wit]
- UK, idiom: (just) take it with a pinch of salt
'pinch' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):