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  • 51cling on by your fingertips — cling on/hang on by your fingertips if you are clinging on by your fingertips, you are only just managing to avoid danger or failure. We were clinging on by our fingertips, desperately trying to stop them scoring another goal. (usually in… …

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  • 52cling film — ► NOUN Brit. ▪ a thin clinging transparent plastic film used as a wrapping or covering for food …

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  • 53cling|fish — «KLIHNG FIHSH», noun, plural fish|es or (collectively) fish. any one of a genus of marine fish having a sucking disk on the ventral side by which it attaches itself to objects …

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  • 54cling|stone — «KLIHNG STOHN», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a peach, plum, or other fruit whose stone clings to the fleshy part. 2. the stone of such fruit. –adj. having such a stone …

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  • 55Cling\ Cling — As in super Clean! If My mom saw my room so Cling Cling my mom will know its gotta be the puppy chow …

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  • 56Cling\ Cling — As in super Clean! If My mom saw my room so Cling Cling my mom will know its gotta be the puppy chow …

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  • 57cling! cling! —   onomatopée.    Le cling! cling! Des enterrements... les cloches du cimetière... les clochettes... F1, 43 …

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  • 58cling film — noun a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food • Syn: ↑clingfilm, ↑Saran Wrap • Usage Domain: ↑trade name (for: ↑Saran Wrap) • Hypernyms …

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  • 59cling-clang — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun ( s) Etymology: cling (III) + clang : a repeated metallic ringing sound (as of a bell) the buoys toll a slow cling clang D.C.Peattie …

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  • 60ˈcling to sth — phrasal verb 1) to keep believing that something is right or real, even though other people do not Older people cling to the religion they had as children.[/ex] 2) to try very hard to keep something The Prime Minister is still clinging to… …

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