Collocations for "jar"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "jar" in context.
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jar
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [glass, jam, rice, flour, spice, storage] jar
- a [half, 1] -liter jar
- [an 8] -ounce jar
- a jar of [spaghetti sauce, mustard, jam, mayo]
- use a jar to [keep, store]
- [kept, carried] butterflies in a jar
- can't get the lid off the jar
- Can you help me open this jar?
- put a [dollar, quarter] in the swear jar
- a jar full of [spices, sauce]
- UK: a (sudden) jar of the [arm, leg, back]
- comes as a jar to our [belief, hope, vision]
- UK: (the car) [stopped, halted] with a jar
- UK, slang: her husband has hit the jar (again)
- UK, slang: Do you fancy a jar (after work)?
- UK: wears jam-jar glasses
'jar' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Polish
- blender
- cap
- cherry
- cinnamon
- coffee
- contain
- cookie
- cover
- cranberry
- cucumber
- glitter
- glue
- instant
- jam
- kettle
- lever
- lid
- mouth
- mustard
- open
- parsley
- pepper
- pickle
- pour
- raid
- relish
- rosemary
- scoop
- sealed
- stick
- sugar
- sweet
- thrust
- travel