Collocations for "matter"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "matter" in context.
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matter
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- discuss [money, finance, love, relationship, work] matters
- [deal with, discuss, solve, sort out] (your) [money] matters
- [private, public, personal, intimate] matters
- [dark, quantum critical, soft] matter
- slang: wish I had some of his gray matter
- (recommended) [reading, reference, listening] matter
- a [minor, trivial, vital, pressing, serious] matter
- deal with the matters at hand
- deal with matters close to heart
- let's [move, get] on to (the) more pressing matters
- what's the matter?
- what's the matter with [him, the TV set, this machine, your eye]?
- nothing's the matter
- it was a matter of [when, how], not if
- it is a matter of life or death
- it was [only, just, merely] a matter of time (before)
- it is a matter of opinion (that)
- as a matter of fact, I don't [know, care, want any]
- Don't laugh; it's [a serious, an important] matter.
- will be [there, ready, in support], no matter what
- will be there in a matter of [minutes, seconds]
- a matter of [money, patience, knowledge, practice, common sense]
- it matters to her
- matters in [respect to, terms of]
- matters most (of all)
- what matters most is
- it mattered at the time
- [he, her family] matters (a lot) to her
- matters a [lot, great deal]
- matters at least a [little, bit]
- [actually, always] matters
- mattered little
- [does, did] not matter
- [does] not matter [at all, in the slightest]
- doesn't matter to anyone
- the [price, cost, quality] doesn't matter
- it doesn't matter to me [if, whether, what]
- did not matter [in the long run, after all]
- never (really) mattered
- nothing matters [now, anymore]
- it scarcely matters
- as if it matters
- what does it matter?
'matter' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
advise
- agency
- agree
- anyhow
- aspect
- attend
- attention
- breast
- budge
- call
- chicken
- chiefly
- come
- completely
- complex
- computing
- concern
- concerning
- confer
- confused
- conscience
- consequence
- considered
- controversial
- cooperation
- core
- counsel
- course
- courtesy
- criminal
- daddy
- debate
- deep
- defer
- deliberate
- delicate
- delve
- destiny
- different
- discipline
- disconnect
- discretion
- dispose
- dispute
- division
- domestic
- either
- exclusive
- fact
- faith