adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a common/popular myth (=that many people believe)
▪ Contrary to popular myth, most road accidents are not the result of speeding.
a common/popular/widespread belief (=that a lot of people believe)
▪ There is a common belief that educational standards are declining.
a popular attraction
▪ The zoo is by far the most popular attraction.
a popular brand
▪ It’s the most popular brand of tequila in Mexico.
a popular cliché (=one used by a lot of people)
▪ The term 'information revolution' is a popular cliché.
a popular destination
▪ Scotland is a popular destination for conferences.
a popular hero (=someone whom many people admire)
▪ Ross was an arctic explorer and popular hero.
a popular legend (=one that many people believe)
▪ A popular legend grew up about him.
a popular mandate (=when someone or something wins a vote by a large amount)
▪ He called the election in the hope of receiving a popular mandate.
a popular option
▪ Independent sixth-form colleges are becoming a popular option.
a popular resort
▪ The popular seaside resort of Brighton is 40 minutes away.
a popular revolt (=one involving a lot of ordinary people)
▪ Opposition groups had called for a popular revolt against the President.
a popular song (=used mainly of songs written before the 1960s)
▪ a popular song from the 1930s
a popular/common stereotype
▪ Current evidence indicates that older people are more healthy than popular stereotypes suggest.
a public/popular protest
▪ The announcement led to widespread public protests.
contrary to popular belief (=opposite to what most people think)
▪ Contrary to popular belief, boys are not usually better at maths than girls.
contrary to popular opinion (=in spite of what most people think)
▪ Contrary to popular opinion, many cats dislike milk.
deservedly popular/well-known/famous etc
▪ Bistro Roti is a deservedly popular restaurant.
general/popular/widespread expectations (=shared by a lot of people)
▪ The general expectation was for married couples to have children.
immensely popular
▪ Champagne wines became immensely popular in the 18th century.
international/great/popular/public etc acclaim
▪ Their recordings have won great acclaim.
mass/popular entertainment (=popular with large numbers of people)
▪ Reality TV has been a very successful form of mass entertainment.
popular hostility (=felt by a lot of people)
▪ Pictures of refugees aroused popular hostility towards the war.
popular mythology
▪ According to popular mythology, school days are the best days of your life.
popular uprising (=by the ordinary people in a country)
▪ a popular uprising
popular
▪ He is the most popular politician in the country.
popular/common misconception
▪ There is a popular misconception that too much exercise is bad for you.
popular/public opinion (=what ordinary people think about something)
▪ How much do newspapers influence popular opinion?
popular/public sentiment (=what most people think)
▪ He was more in touch with public sentiment than many of his critics.
popular/unpopular
▪ This view has become increasingly popular in society.
▪ It’s now a rather unpopular view.
public/popular anger
▪ By now public anger in America was mounting.
public/popular outrage
▪ The case generated public outrage.
public/popular pressure (=pressure from the public)
▪ He faces mounting public pressure to resign.
public/popular support
▪ There seemed to be no popular support for war.
public/popular taste
▪ The shop created a unique style of goods that appealed to the popular taste.
the mainstream/popular media (=television, newspapers etc, that most people are able to see or read)
▪ Few of these events were reported in the mainstream media.
the popular image of sth
▪ The popular image of the spy as a glamorous figure of mystery is far from the reality.
the tabloid/popular press (=popular newspapers that have a lot of news about famous people etc, rather than serious news)
▪ He regularly appeared in the tabloid press alongside well-known actresses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ If they did not, the myth of the sense behind the sentence would not be as popular as it is.
▪ Sea burials were as popular as ever, but they weren't cheap.
▪ Stuart was as popular as he was courageous and capable, and the South was stunned by his death.
▪ Virgin hopes a day in the cockpit will become as popular as a day at the races for company gatherings.
▪ And just to say some one is a strict conduct disorder is not as popular today as it was a few years ago.
▪ Weston-super-Mare, Southsea, Folkestone and Lowestoft were the other venues and all proved as popular as on previous visits.
▪ And the topic of war, even the Revolution, was no longer as popular as it had once been.
enormously
▪ This is an important part of the rhythm of a cathedral's worship and it remains enormously popular.
▪ He is an enormously popular president.
▪ Lyte was enormously popular during his 25 years of ministry there and built up a Sunday School of over 700 children.
▪ Lunch was slightly less raucous than the evening meal, but still enormously popular with the masses.
▪ Handel had been dead for five years, but his music was still enormously popular.
extremely
▪ During the 1993/94 programme we shall continue the series of afternoon events which have proved extremely popular.
▪ Cruises, foreign vacation or job experiences, glamorous career situations, and other such settings are extremely popular.
▪ Nevertheless, these works were extremely popular in their day and are still excellent examples of pure terror and suspense.
▪ Health and fitness, in particular, have proved extremely popular and the clubs gymnasia are experiencing increased usage.
▪ It's extremely popular, so book ahead.
▪ The Select-A-Play system has been extremely popular since being instituted last season.
highly
▪ Newsgroups are also highly popular as a means of tracing family members who may have fled conflict or natural disaster.
▪ Once highly popular, his ratings in the polls sometimes dropped into single digits.
▪ An example is the once highly popular low-carbohydrate method of slimming.
▪ President Hashemi Rafsanjani, a highly popular figure, chose not to run again.
▪ PERRIER-JOUET Good consistent quality wines produced by this mainstream highly popular house.
▪ And the booklets costing $ 5. 95 are also highly popular.
▪ These courses proved highly popular with our lads and there was practically a hundred percent pass rate.
▪ And Stewart was highly popular among his peers.
hugely
▪ Bill, 54, stopped making the hugely popular Cosby Show - seen here on Channel 4 - earlier this year.
▪ Doctors at the time criticized the hugely popular diet.
▪ And that would mean tackling the hugely popular Mr Yeltsin himself.
▪ They were hugely popular and widely read.
immensely
▪ This had not prevented him from becoming an immensely popular pastor.
▪ The President personally remained immensely popular and in 1944 he fought and won his fourth presidential campaign.
▪ The immensely popular company was the only one on the bill, Alvin noted, that was not subsidized by its country.
▪ Beveridge's legacy endures because the welfare state works tolerably well and is immensely popular.
▪ Corporate intranets, immensely popular in the business world, may prove too confusing to use and too expensive to maintain.
▪ The film was immensely popular and had so clearly struck a chord that Hammer carried out a rethink of its production policy.
increasingly
▪ Snowboarding games are becoming increasingly popular and PlayStation 2 is proving the perfect platform for them.
▪ Because bond insurance helps municipalities trim borrowing costs, it has become increasingly popular nationwide.
▪ This method is becoming increasingly popular and has great benefits in terms of aerobatic flying.
▪ Such high-octane tours have become increasingly popular.
▪ But kidnapping as an income source is an increasingly popular and frightening practice.
▪ An injunction, on the other hand, is becoming increasingly popular as an effective remedy for breach of contract.
▪ Possibly because there are so many middle-aged guys like me struggling with graphical interfaces, 17-inch monitors are becoming increasingly popular.
more
▪ There are so many forms of alternative medicine and there's no doubt it's getting more popular.
▪ You can buy hamburgers, but hot-and-spicy noodles are much more popular.
▪ Giraffes and upstanding bears are more popular than snakes, rats and spiders.
▪ There are also other definitions which can be given and which are rather more popular these days.
▪ The car, with all its hidden costs in pollution, traffic accidents and congestion, will continue to be more popular.
▪ In death, Rabin has become larger than life and more popular than he ever was as prime minister.
▪ He is more popular than either Margaret Thatcher or Neil Kinnock.
▪ Chretien continues to be more popular than unpopular, although he has given voters some ground for displeasure.
most
▪ Among the hundred most popular museums in Britain, it was visited by more than 900,000 people.
▪ The most popular athletes had more than one card.
▪ During the summer months weddings are the most popular function.
▪ It is the pale, icy blues and strong medium shades that are now the most popular.
▪ Even the most popular personalities, as William Whitelaw was in 1981, can run into difficulty.
▪ The most popular option is the DOS-based WordPerfect system which has launched version 6.0, being the first significant enhancement since 5.1.
▪ It was this element of unreality which made tunnelling the most popular scheme for escape.
so
▪ It isn't difficult to see why the Panda is so popular.
▪ At one point the broadcast became so popular that a line of Sonny Boy cornmeal was introduced.
▪ This series was so popular that it was repeated in the same year.
▪ The site became so popular that it received more than 50 million hits on its first day, crashing the system.
▪ Waterers Landscaping became involved in the project in September and proved so popular that the original £150,000 contract grew and grew.
▪ This bread is so popular that it broke my heart having to throw it out.
▪ These friendly classes are so popular, numbers are restricted and booking is a must.
▪ Oddly enough, what makes Gingrich so popular with conservative Republicans is also what can make him unpopular with others.
very
▪ The oily fish, like mackerel and herring, are not generally very popular.
▪ The host program is very popular.
▪ It is very popular with the Milanese, and the seats around it are filled at most times of the day.
▪ To tell the truth, he was never very popular.
▪ Booklets can be very popular indeed and some booklets have been taken up in very large quantities.
▪ The cards are now larger than in previous years and we have found that this size proved very popular.
▪ In consequence the use of sedimentation columns or tubes to determine the fall velocities of sediment particles has become very popular.
▪ Caniço has probably the best selection of restaurants outside Funchal and is very popular with both Madeirans and foreigners.
■ NOUN
belief
▪ Contrary to popular belief, Soviet economic sources provided rich picking for the researcher, as long as the right subject was chosen.
▪ Contrary to popular belief by many, Memorial Day is not the day summer vacation begins.
▪ Dryden's position was that popular belief in such beings was enough to justify their representation in poetry.
▪ Contrary to popular belief a preference for boys over girls is not universal.
▪ Contrary to popular belief, income tax provides only just over a quarter of all tax revenue.
▪ In general, however, it was simply reinterpreting in new language a set of ancient popular beliefs.
▪ Contrary to popular belief, shoplifting is neither a new word nor a new occurrence.
▪ Actually, contrary to popular belief, hallucinations were not part of the original definition of schizophrenia.
choice
▪ The Cheshire Ring Canal Walk is another popular choice.
▪ For the past two decades, the national party conventions have been reduced to rubber-stamping the primaries' popular choices.
▪ A continuation of wartime industrial conscription was a popular choice.
▪ Looking for ideas to replace the risky, popular choices?
▪ Both are popular choices with republicans.
▪ Benzodiazepines Benzodiazepines are much safer than the older barbiturates and are said to be a popular choice among physicians for treating insomnia.
▪ Brushes, like giant bottle brushes are one popular choice of mechanical media.
▪ Jim Zorn, naturally, was a popular choice.
culture
▪ There were deliberate attempts to develop elements of both high and popular culture in music, poetry, dance, and games.
▪ Yet, Fox still managed to change television and popular culture, for better and for worse.
▪ Photo: Elaine Prisk, 1997 popular culture.
▪ In another single-room installation, 15 photographs by Diane Arbus explore the psychology of popular culture.
▪ Portrayals of computers in popular culture attribute individuality.
▪ Both define the popular culture, and in my life, movies and fashion are constantly crossing over.
▪ Consequently, more attention was paid to working-class and popular culture.
▪ But as nettlesome as these issues can be, popular culture raises another issue of paternity with another kind of collaboration.
demand
▪ But there is no popular demand, and no need, to overturn our institutions in a fit of impatience.
▪ Both men created through their activities a popular demand for access to the very wilderness they sought to protect.
▪ As in many other countries, popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990.
▪ The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality.
▪ And now, due to popular demand, we can announce the arrival of the Megadisk!
▪ It was a thing that was created by popular demand.
▪ Sir Peter was scheduled to sign for one hour, but gave way to popular demand and stayed for three.
▪ Due to popular demand, levels one to three of the original Fast Forward have been split, producing six short intensive courses.
movement
▪ By 1984 the popular movement against the excesses and injustices of the Marcos regime was well-developed.
▪ I learned something about the difference between a serious and quiet pursuit and a popular movement.
▪ After 1848, the popular movement declined.
▪ The arenas hired for these meetings seemed to match the modern creed of the new popular movement.
▪ The history of popular movements and popular disturbances.
▪ In agriculture, the popular movement began to respond to the kind of difficulties that farmers like those in Zubaydat had encountered.
▪ Just why Fitzthomas threw in his lot so completely with Montfort and the popular movement in the city is unclear.
music
▪ It is the centrality of recordings within popular music today.
▪ The box set has given a history to popular music, by providing perspective.
▪ Its cabaret tradition and its popular music are unrivalled.
▪ The timeless street has been the heartbeat of popular music, and source of countless classics.
▪ Already highly successful in popular music, dance and commercial television, blacks have found the movies a tougher nut to crack.
▪ So Green turned to popular music.
▪ In popular music, such functions are either lacking or much weaker.
▪ But they are generally happy just to programme and share the pleasant experience of listening to popular music on the radio.
myth
▪ Contrary to popular myth Darwin was not thunderstruck by the theory of evolution during his voyage on the Beagle.
▪ In addition, peo-ple have new questions, arising as often from media reports of scientific studies as from popular myth.
▪ Contrary to popular myth, women have gained very little over the last ten years-and lost a lot.
▪ Other popular myths also fail to withstand close scrutiny.
▪ In fact, the Great and Good are not nearly as changed as popular myth would have it.
▪ Contrary to the popular myth, Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics.
▪ One popular myth needs, perhaps, to be dispelled at this stage.
▪ One of the most popular myths in weight training is that higher reps produce bigger abdominals.
opinion
▪ Contrary to modem popular opinion these were splendid ships with excellent accommodation and many modern conveniences for both crew and passengers.
▪ Well, popular opinion is wrong.
▪ But the fullness of the material makes possible qualitative study with particularly interesting insights into popular opinions and activities.
▪ Mary Pinciotti knows that red clay is good for your garden, despite popular opinion.
▪ These large juries were clearly intended to provide a reasonably representative sample of popular opinion.
▪ She said that, contrary to popular opinion, traumas caused by such a disaster were not short-lived.
▪ There are various ways in which popular opinion can be represented with reasonable accuracy.
▪ Contrary to popular opinion, the non-conformist Sunday was not a dismal day full of restrictions.
press
▪ The new popular press played a crucial role in orchestrating public opinion over the affair.
▪ The public can be forgiven for finding the concept perplexing, since the popular press uses the terms multimedia and cross-media interchangeably.
▪ Such a low-key comment is not what is required by the popular press at the conclusion of a traumatic trial.
▪ These anxieties were mercilessly sharpened by the popular press.
▪ But it is not just the popular press who have argued such a case.
▪ Reading about it in the popular press is no substitute for the scrutiny that follows the disclosure required by technical journals.
▪ This attitude is reflected in a variety of ways in the popular press.
song
▪ One day Modi had made a collage by pasting a verse from a popular song around a painting, in Cubist fashion.
▪ I asked him what kind of songs he knew and he said he knew some popular songs.
▪ A woman was singing popular songs, and the holidaymakers were drinking and laughing as they ate their steaks.
▪ Neuter nouns ending in o take a. He wrote the lyrics of a popular song.
▪ Once upon a time there was a film with a jolly popular song, sung as a duet.
▪ As I was standing before the sink,, I heard Edusha singing a recently popular song.
▪ I would write parodies of popular songs and my selection would go all around the circuit.
▪ This is the principal reason that the great voices of opera seldom sing popular songs.
support
▪ For governments and corporations this may be the price of popular support for globalisation on a human scale.
▪ Surveys continue to show strong popular support for such direct democratic measures.
▪ It now had members in Stormont and increasing popular support and, more importantly, it had a clear Protestant identity.
▪ All three bills had popular support, according to polls.
▪ The extent of popular support, if any, for this enterprise was never clear.
▪ It would not be surprising if, to gain popular support for emancipationist petitions, reformers had to work very hard.
uprising
▪ The regime was overthrown by a popular uprising on Dec. 22, 1989.
▪ But as normality resumes, a strange myth still hovers around the popular uprising that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic.
▪ Marcos was overthrown in 1986 after a popular uprising.
view
▪ He developed something of a studio to produce his most popular views.
▪ As George likes to say, the popular view is slightly more than half right.
▪ Karen Quinlan falls into this third category, despite initial medical and popular views to the contrary.
▪ How is a judge to gauge the popular view?
▪ The picture thus sketched is in strong contrast to the popular view of housewives as a leisured class.
▪ I believe that the popular view that it was the rainbow is incorrect.
vote
▪ The President is elected for a five-year term by popular vote.
▪ In 1992, he ended up with 19 percent of the popular vote.
▪ Liberal forces have already begun to collect the million signatures needed to call a popular vote.
▪ Perot garnered 19 percent of the popular vote in the three-way race in 1992&038;.
▪ The 1973 Constitution provides for a National Assembly made up of the Cabinet and 30 members elected by popular vote.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
contrary to popular belief/opinion
▪ Contrary to popular belief, gorillas are shy and gentle creatures.
▪ Actually, contrary to popular belief, hallucinations were not part of the original definition of schizophrenia.
▪ And contrary to popular belief, we don't want to wear the trousers at home.
popular demand
▪ And now, due to popular demand, we can announce the arrival of the Megadisk!
▪ As in many other countries, popular demands for the introduction of multiparty democracy grew in the first half of 1990.
▪ Both men created through their activities a popular demand for access to the very wilderness they sought to protect.
▪ But there is no popular demand, and no need, to overturn our institutions in a fit of impatience.
▪ Due to popular demand, levels one to three of the original Fast Forward have been split, producing six short intensive courses.
▪ It was a thing that was created by popular demand.
▪ Sir Peter was scheduled to sign for one hour, but gave way to popular demand and stayed for three.
▪ The formative years of many of the elderly who were surveyed was a ti-me of popular demand for greater equality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Cracker Jacks" are a snack with a long history in American popular culture.
▪ popular entertainment such as TV
▪ Chatlines have proved very popular with young people.
▪ Contrary to popular belief, the Australian desert is often full of wildlife.
▪ I don't accept the popular view that all criminals should be put in prison.
▪ Jazz has been popular in Japan since the 1960s.
▪ Lisa's one of the most popular girls in class.
▪ Old-fashioned names are getting popular again.
▪ The Sears Tower is a popular tourist destination.
▪ There is still a lot popular support for the ex-president.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chef Tony Rea said a popular entree is ostrich pepper steak in a wine sauce for $ 22. 95.
▪ Hus quickly became a popular figure in Bohemia.
▪ Karen Quinlan falls into this third category, despite initial medical and popular views to the contrary.
▪ Small, simple, cosy and extremely popular.
▪ Swaps that deal brokers out of small share sales Share exchanges are an increasingly popular alternative for investors to selling small holdings.
▪ The answer becomes clear when one looks deeper into the history of popular religiosity and superstition in Sicily.
▪ The drama was popular with the complete social spectrum.
▪ Western popular prints and Soviet official art both displayed a penchant for landscapes, flower pieces, still lifes and genre.