Collocations for "kettling"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "kettling" in context.
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kettle
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [an electric, a stove, a metallic, a kitchen, a camping] kettle
- a [half, one] -liter jar
- the kettle holds [two] liters
- put the kettle on (for tea)
- the kettle is [boiling, whistling, steaming]
- the kettle was boiling [in, by] the fire
- boil water in the kettle
- boiling water from the kettle
- steam [pouring, spewing, coming] out (of) the kettle
- [grab, hold] the kettle by its handle
- the [spout, handle] of the kettle
- idiom: that's like the pot calling the kettle black
- UK, idiom: as the kettle said to the pot
- idiom: that's a different kettle of fish
- the kettle [spout, handle, button, switch]