Collocations for "beans"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "beans" in context.
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bean
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- [red, green, black] beans
- [baked, refried, canned, dry] beans
- a [can, tin, sack, pound] of beans
- We are having beans for [lunch, dinner].
- am out of coffee beans
- [grind, roast] coffee beans
- [fair-trade, organic] coffee beans
- the smell of coffee beans
- beans and [pork, bacon, ham]
- beans with [pork]
- playing with a jumping bean
- [stuffed, lined, filled] with beans
- slang: Use your bean (for once)!
- slang: doesn't know beans about [economics, baseball, computers]
- idiom: Who spilled the beans?
- whole-bean coffee
- eat bean [sprouts, curd]
- [red, black] -bean [soup, stew]
'beans' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):