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string sth together
[ M ]
If you string words or sentences together, you manage to say something that other people can understand
• People tend to be very impressed if you can string together a couple of sentences in Japanese., string sb along
[ M ]
to deceive someone for a long time about what you are really intending to do
• She's been promising to pay back the money for six months, but I reckon she's just stringing me along.
• He strung her along for years, saying he'd marry her and divorce his wife., string sth out
GROUP
1. If a group of similar things or people are strung out, they are in a long line with spaces between each of them
• Most of Canada's population is strung out along its 5525-mile border with the United States.
• The geese were strung out along the river bank., string sth up
[ M ]
to tie or fix the ends of a long thin object to two points that are high up, allowing the rest of it to hang freely
• Let's string up a banner in the garden to welcome him home., string sb up
1. [ M ] informal to kill someone by hanging them by the neck from a rope, usually as a punishment for a crime
• He reckons they're too soft on mass murderers and says they ought to be strung up., string sb up
2. informal to punish someone severely
• He ought to be strung up for what he said about his mother., string sth out
ACTIVITY
2. [ M ] to make an activity last longer than necessary
• I think the lawyer's just stringing out the case so that he'll earn more money.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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noun
twine:
I tied the package with string.
noun
series:
A strange string of events occurred.
verb
chain:
He tried to string them together.
Simple Definitions
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noun thin cord ADJ. taut, tight He pulled the string tight. | loose | tangled He had hair like tangled yellow string. QUANT. bit, length, piece I cut a length of string to tie up the package. | ball VERB + STRING knot, tie, tie sth up with Tie the string round the parcel. | undo, untie | wind (up) He wound the string into a ball. | unwind | dangle (sth) on Next to the phone, there was a pencil dangling on a string. PREP. in the ~ There's a knot in the string. PHRASES on the end of a string on a musical instrument ADJ. tight | slack | open | stopped | guitar, violin, etc. | A, G, etc. VERB + STRING tighten, tune | loosen | pluck | change, replace | break STRING + VERB break | vibrate STRING + NOUN instrument PREP. on a/the ~ Play it on the G string.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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In addition to the idioms beginning with STRING, Also see HARP ON (ONE STRING); NO STRINGS ATTACHED; ON A SHOESTRING; ON A STRING; PULL STRINGS; PURSE STRINGS; TIED TO APRON STRINGS; TWO STRINGS TO ONE'S BOW.
American Heritage Idioms