collar : Idioms & Phrases

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blue-collar

  • adjective of or designating manual industrial work or workers
  • adjective satellite of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
    propertyless; working-class; wage-earning.
    • party of the propertyless proletariat"- G.B.Shaw
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clerical collar

  • noun a stiff white collar with no opening in the front; a distinctive symbol of the clergy
    dog collar; clerical collar.
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Collar beam

  • (Arch.), a horizontal piece of timber connecting and tying together two opposite rafters; also, called simply collar.
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collar blight

  • noun a disease affecting the trunks of pear and apple trees
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collar bone

Col"lar bone`
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  1. (Anat.) The clavicle.
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collar cell

  • noun any of the flagellated cells in sponges having a collar of cytoplasm around the flagellum; they maintain a flow of water through the body
    choanocyte.
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Collar day

  • a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders.
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Collar of brawn

  • the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. Eng. Johnson.
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collared lizard

  • noun any of several robust long-tailed lizards with collars of two dark bands; of central and western United States and northern Mexico
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collared peccary

  • noun dark grey peccary with an indistinct white collar; of semi desert areas of Mexico and southwestern United States
    Peccari angulatus; Tayassu angulatus; javelina; Tayassu tajacu.
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collared pika

  • noun similar to little chief hare and may be same species
    Ochotona collaris.
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dog collar

  • noun a collar for a dog
  • noun a stiff white collar with no opening in the front; a distinctive symbol of the clergy
    dog collar; clerical collar.
  • noun necklace that fits tightly around a woman's neck
    neckband; choker; collar.
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eton collar

  • noun broad white collar worn over the lapels of a jacket
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hot under the collar

  • adjective satellite very angry
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hudson bay collared lemming

  • noun of northern Canada
    Dicrostonyx hudsonius.
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iron collar

  • noun an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation
    garrotte; garrote; garotte.
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open-collared

  • adjective satellite of a shirt; not buttoned at the neck
    • dressed casually in shorts and an open-collared shirt
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peter pan collar

  • noun a flat collar with rounded ends that meet in front
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pink-collar

  • adjective satellite of or relating to a class of jobs once traditionally filled by women
    • a pink-collar employee
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polo-neck collar

  • noun a high close-fitting turnover collar
    polo-neck collar.
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roman collar

  • noun a stiff white collar with no opening in the front; a distinctive symbol of the clergy
    dog collar; clerical collar.
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Sand collar

  • . (Zoöl.) Same as Sand saucer, below.
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shoe collar

  • noun the stitching that forms the rim of a shoe or boot
    collar.
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To collar beef

  • (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.
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To slip the collar

  • to get free; to disentangle one's self from difficulty, labor, or engagement.
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turtleneck collar

  • noun a high close-fitting turnover collar
    polo-neck collar.
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Vandyke collar ∨ cape

  • a broad collar or cape of linen and lace with a deep pointed or scalloped edge, worn lying on the shoulders; so called from its appearance in pictures by Vandyke.
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white-collar

  • adjective of or designating salaried professional or clerical work or workers
    • the coal miner's son aspired to a white-collar occupation as a bookkeeper
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