I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a door opens/closes/shuts
▪ We were still waiting for the train doors to open.
a door slams/bangs (shut) (=shuts loudly)
▪ I heard the front door slam.
a door slides open/shut (=moves smoothly to the side or back again)
▪ The lift doors slid open and we got in.
a door swings open/shut (=moves forward to open or backwards to shut)
▪ The door swung shut behind me.
banged shut
▪ The window banged shut.
blow (sth) open/shut
▪ A sudden draught blew the door shut.
clamped...shut
▪ Creed opened his mouth to speak, then clamped it shut.
click open/shut (=open with a short hard sound)
▪ I heard the gate at the front of the house click open.
closed/shut
▪ All the windows were closed.
close/shut a drawer
▪ She shut the drawer and locked it with a small key.
close/shut a gate
▪ Please close the gate.
close/shut a window
▪ She shut the window firmly.
close/shut (down) a factory
▪ The factory was closed down in 2006.
close/shut your eyes
▪ Joe closed his eyes and tried to get back to sleep.
open/close/shut the door
▪ I opened the door and Dad was standing there.
▪ Can you close the door as you go out?
open/shut/close your mouth
▪ He opened his mouth wide so the doctor could examine his throat.
pull sth open/shut
▪ She pulled open the door and hurried inside.
push sth open/shut
▪ I slowly pushed the door open.
shut down a computer (=close the programs and stop it working)
shut/close with a click
▪ The front door shut with a click.
shut...gob
▪ Jean told him to shut his gob.
slammed...shut
▪ He slammed the door shut.
snap (sth) open/shut
▪ She snapped her briefcase shut.
spring open/shut
▪ The gate sprang shut behind them.
swing open/shut
▪ The heavy door swung shut.
tight shut
▪ I kept my eyes tight shut.
zip sth shut/open
▪ Olsen zipped the bag shut.
▪ He zipped open the case unfastened it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
▪ London compared to Paris and New York: everything shut away.
▪ The sleds stayed in garages, the biscuit pans shut away in cupboards.
▪ Too shut away for me, too uninspiring, this work bored me.
▪ It brought back the long months of bitterness and loneliness she had suffered, shut away on her father's estate.
▪ It would be a bit tricky for the count to keep her shut away if they were staying with him.
▪ A lot of people are classed as mad and shut away without any need.
down
▪ It will be constantly monitored and if conditions change too quickly it will automatically shut down.
▪ We stayed strapped in our seats with the Hueys shut down.
▪ This mode is attained by shutting down the eyelids.
▪ Emergencies were declared in six states as airports were shut down, stranding travelers across the country.
▪ One of the worst offenders, the Polam lighting factory at Rzeszow, has already been shut down.
▪ I started to tell him, but everything in my mind shut down.
▪ Can Making Belfast Work be improved or should it be shut down to make way for alternative policies?
▪ You can keep the factory shut down and unproductive, or you can clear it out and get to work.
off
▪ But the idea was rejected, because it would have shut off supplies to the refugees.
▪ The layer contains enough dust to shut off sunlight from the surface of the planet for several months to a year.
▪ Derek and I drove down there and shut off the whole barn, preventing all means of getting in or out.
▪ A large delivery van was almost blocking the narrow street, its high sides nearly shutting off the daylight from her windows.
▪ Virginia and Peter Stillman were shut off from him now.
▪ The result amazed them: the Il-4 killed the mice by shutting off a vital part of their immune system.
▪ And the great Tretyakov art gallery may have its utilities shut off for nonpayment of bills.
out
▪ I want to shut out the noise.
▪ To be shut out at home in two of the last four games is very weird and totally unexpected.
▪ I was learning to shut out the daily discomforts, however, either by looking around, or by playing mental games.
▪ Shall I ever be able to shut out the sight and the sound?
▪ The doors moved towards each other, shutting out the stars.
▪ It was as if some one had shut out all the sound in the world.
tight
▪ She lay with her eyes tight shut and her mind held to a determined blank.
▪ The doors leading into the halls of real political and economic power and influence were still shut tight against us.
▪ He was sitting on the floor among the cracker wrappings and the crumbs, his shoulders shaking, his eyes tight shut.
▪ Lily froze underneath him, her eyes tight shut.
▪ They were shut tight, without a crack to see through.
▪ She screwed her eyes tight shut, trying to forget the images of last night.
▪ And still, the public schools are shut tight.
tightly
▪ In the hottest months these curtains would be tightly shut in one more effort to get away from the heat and glare.
▪ Above, its transom is covered with plywood and nailed tightly shut.
▪ Hari sighed and, pressing her eyes tightly shut, felt unequal to the task before her.
▪ Squeezing her eyes so tightly shut that they looked like senile lips, Mary began to gabble.
▪ She squeezed her eyes shut tightly, feeling the sting of tears behind her eyelids.
up
▪ Even with Emily I didn't shut up, and we have always had the capacity for shutting up.
▪ It is time to put up or shut up.
▪ Mr Washington mumbled something about telling her to shut up.
▪ Sometimes, though, we can be so afraid of what other people think that we shut up rather than speak up.
▪ When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up.
■ NOUN
click
▪ The front door shut with a click.
▪ It shut with a satisfying click.
door
▪ The doors are shut, but not locked.
▪ The front door shut with its usual clatter.
▪ I hauled the door shut behind me, in time to see the office door opening.
▪ I said, slamming the door shut.
▪ Jamie backed away, laughing, and slammed the door shut behind him.
▪ The van doors were shut and locked, and it took off.
▪ There were steps leading out of it and at the top a door three quarters shut.
▪ The office door banged shut and the Monsignor groaned.
gate
▪ She was on call to open and shut the gates at any hour, in any weather.
▪ Water managers have already shut a gate north of the crash site to reduce the southerly flow of water.
▪ He shut the gate behind Willie and the wetness from the top splashed into his face.
▪ If it shut the gate at night, the traffic would cease.
▪ He shut the gate then just ran straight out on to the road.
▪ But the town remained steadfastly loyal to the Old King and shut its gates against him.
▪ Others were fighting to shut the gate, pushing against the sheer bodyweight of the beasts in the gateway.
▪ She glanced back as she shut the gate behind her.
mind
▪ She shut her mind from any thoughts of what it all meant.
▪ I took my revenge by shutting him out of mind.
▪ She lay with her eyes tight shut and her mind held to a determined blank.
▪ I shut my mind to the consequences, positioned my hands, and pushed.
▪ After that she shut him out of her mind once again.
▪ She closed her eyes, as if by doing so she could shut him out of her mind.
▪ Then I shut my mind to the picture that her words had conjured, for after all - what did it matter?
▪ Lorton shut his mind to that.
mouth
▪ I don't believe she could keep her mouth shut.
▪ To make matters worse, I had to keep my mouth shut whenever he was around.
▪ She opened her mouth and shut it.
▪ With her mouth shut her face seemed to shrink.
▪ His mouth kept opening and shutting as if he was trying to say something.
▪ For one, a mistress who kept her mouth shut.
▪ This is all from Gran so keep your mouth shut.
▪ If I would only keep my mouth shut more often, I thought, I would fit in better everywhere.
plant
▪ Ford shut down some plants for a two-week period.
▪ We did this or we shut down and if they wanted the latter we should shut down our plants immediately.
▪ National groups could only find outlets for their own beer by acquiring smaller companies and shutting down their brewing plant.
▪ A company statement that these might shut down plants implies that their polluting operations would otherwise continue.
▪ The fire, apparently caused by a short circuit, triggered an automatic safety system that shut down the plant.
shop
▪ It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
▪ But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
▪ Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
▪ Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
▪ We might just as well shut up shop.
▪ They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
▪ I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
trap
▪ Usually Gloria told her to shut her trap.
▪ He didn't annoy her and she shut her almighty trap.
window
▪ He drove with the windows shut.
▪ Most of the doors and windows are shut to keep out the heat; outside, the heat is alive.
▪ He nods at us through the car window, then snaps shut the central-locking, making himself secure.
▪ The room was cold, the windows froze shut.
▪ The window is welded shut which is just as well.
▪ The windows were now nailed shut and draped.
▪ They also had to keep windows shut during services and soundproof the room.
▪ He pulled the window shut behind him and it closed with a click, the lock falling firmly back in place.
■ VERB
open
▪ He opened and shut the drawers and the flap and found what he expected.
▪ It has a thickly soft, two-beat thud, like the sound of a heavy door being repeatedly opened and shut.
▪ She opened her mouth and shut it.
▪ You know how to keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.
▪ She was on call to open and shut the gates at any hour, in any weather.
▪ George climbed over the gate while Willie opened and shut it neatly behind him.
▪ It opened, then swung shut.
tell
▪ Usually Gloria told her to shut her trap.
▪ I wanted to scream, to tell the kid5 to shut their mouths and go to hell.
▪ I just tell him to shut up and give him a sharp rap across the knuckles.
▪ There would be others to choose from, I told myself, shutting the door once again to my first big love.
▪ I just don't like being told to shut up!
▪ I told him to shut up and I seized the door handle and gave it a good tug.
▪ Just tell me to shut up any time you like.
▪ Need to return to the office? Tell him to shut it off again.
try
▪ When I come back Mr Jackson is trying to shut my suitcase.
▪ Before the film was released, Hearst tried to have it shut down.
▪ He leaned on his bedroom door, as if trying to shut out the world.
▪ I tried to shut the door quietly.
▪ I tried to shut out these abominations and concentrate on Marine One seat assignments.
▪ He just tries to shut you down.
▪ Jerome would open his mouth and Mr Washington would try to shut it for him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
can do sth with your eyes shut/closed
close/shut your ears to sth
▪ At first, I closed my ears to what I did not want to hear.
▪ Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room.
▪ Don't close your ears to the world and don't give up.
▪ He tried to close his ears to the plea.
▪ Rincewind tried to shut his ears to the grating voice beside him.
▪ She heard the boys hurling abuse at her, shouting to her to stop, but she shut her ears to them.
▪ She wanted to close her ears to it.
▪ Sometimes she even managed to shut her ears to the arguments going on around her.
close/shut your eyes to sth
▪ We can't close our eyes to the fact that our town has a gang problem.
▪ I've closed my eyes to your activities long enough.
▪ If we must sometimes close our eyes to open them in the myth dimension, so be it.
▪ On a sob Ruth swallowed hard and closed her eyes to the burning sun overhead.
▪ On the other hand the very same development increases their tendency to close their eyes to the future.
▪ Prayer May we never become so worldly that we close our eyes to the miracle and mystery of life.
▪ The need to push came again, and Jane closed her eyes to concentrate.
▪ They could not shut their eyes to the ugly and degrading side of wine-drinking and see only the delightful side.
▪ Turning off the light, she slid back under the covers and closed her eyes to sleep fitfully until noon.
keep your mouth shut
▪ He just doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut.
▪ You'd better keep your mouth shut about this.
▪ After the incident Ninham, of Hilda Street, gave both boys £5 and told them to keep their mouths shut.
▪ For one, a mistress who kept her mouth shut.
▪ I don't believe she could keep her mouth shut.
▪ If I would only keep my mouth shut more often, I thought, I would fit in better everywhere.
▪ In the end, I kept my mouth shut.
▪ It would be best to keep our mouths shut and let justice take its course.
▪ This is all from Gran so keep your mouth shut.
▪ You want to be off the record, keep your mouth shut.
keep your trap shut
▪ Tell him to keep his trap shut and let me ask the questions.
shut up shop
▪ But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
▪ I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
▪ It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
▪ Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
▪ They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
▪ Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
▪ We might just as well shut up shop.
shut your trap!
shut/close the door on sth
▪ A loss in this election will not necessarily close the door on the campaign.
▪ Come in, lads, come in and shut the door on the fog.
▪ Even so, Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility.
▪ Imagine asking that they close the door on me so I can see what it feels like.
▪ It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze.
▪ Lucker murmurs something to Jasper and leads him away closing the door on me.
▪ She closed the door on them.
▪ The previous owner had used a bathroom off one of the bedrooms as storage and simply closed the door on it.
shut/close the stable door after the horse has bolted
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Come in and shut the door behind you.
▪ Did you hear the back door shut?
▪ She heard Charlotte downstairs shutting the windows, and locking up for the night.
▪ She lay down on the bed and shut her eyes.
▪ Someone had shut the gate to stop the sheep getting out onto the road.
▪ You'd better shut the window.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Shut up, shut up, shut up.
▪ But on game day, security shut that down.
▪ He shut the door behind him as quietly as possible.
▪ Hundreds of miners ringed the Port of Mobile and shut down the whole port.
▪ I remember this and smile, clamping my mouth shut as Wiggen goes into action.
▪ Then I clamped my mouth shut again.
▪ This time the car stopped and a door banged shut.
▪ With a small exclamation she snapped the book shut, but before she could get to her feet Marc glanced up.
II.adjectivePHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
can do sth with your eyes shut/closed
close/shut your ears to sth
▪ At first, I closed my ears to what I did not want to hear.
▪ Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room.
▪ Don't close your ears to the world and don't give up.
▪ He tried to close his ears to the plea.
▪ Rincewind tried to shut his ears to the grating voice beside him.
▪ She heard the boys hurling abuse at her, shouting to her to stop, but she shut her ears to them.
▪ She wanted to close her ears to it.
▪ Sometimes she even managed to shut her ears to the arguments going on around her.
close/shut your eyes to sth
▪ We can't close our eyes to the fact that our town has a gang problem.
▪ I've closed my eyes to your activities long enough.
▪ If we must sometimes close our eyes to open them in the myth dimension, so be it.
▪ On a sob Ruth swallowed hard and closed her eyes to the burning sun overhead.
▪ On the other hand the very same development increases their tendency to close their eyes to the future.
▪ Prayer May we never become so worldly that we close our eyes to the miracle and mystery of life.
▪ The need to push came again, and Jane closed her eyes to concentrate.
▪ They could not shut their eyes to the ugly and degrading side of wine-drinking and see only the delightful side.
▪ Turning off the light, she slid back under the covers and closed her eyes to sleep fitfully until noon.
keep your mouth shut
▪ He just doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut.
▪ You'd better keep your mouth shut about this.
▪ After the incident Ninham, of Hilda Street, gave both boys £5 and told them to keep their mouths shut.
▪ For one, a mistress who kept her mouth shut.
▪ I don't believe she could keep her mouth shut.
▪ If I would only keep my mouth shut more often, I thought, I would fit in better everywhere.
▪ In the end, I kept my mouth shut.
▪ It would be best to keep our mouths shut and let justice take its course.
▪ This is all from Gran so keep your mouth shut.
▪ You want to be off the record, keep your mouth shut.
keep your trap shut
▪ Tell him to keep his trap shut and let me ask the questions.
put up or shut up
shut up shop
▪ But as shopping habits changed many traders shut up shop and moved out blaming recession, traffic restrictions and fewer bus routes.
▪ I think we should shut up shop, if you don't mind.
▪ It's not like being on shore where once the patients are gone you shut up shop and go home.
▪ Keith Rodwell, Ipswich Witches' commercial manager, shuts up shop after last night's match with Wolverhampton was rained off.
▪ They need ways of shutting up shop, or at least of enduring, when conditions are simply impossible.
▪ Time to shut up shop and get to know each other again.
▪ We might just as well shut up shop.
shut your trap!
shut/close the door on sth
▪ A loss in this election will not necessarily close the door on the campaign.
▪ Come in, lads, come in and shut the door on the fog.
▪ Even so, Wickham was not ready to shut the door on the possibility.
▪ Imagine asking that they close the door on me so I can see what it feels like.
▪ It watched her, unwinking, until she reached the room behind the shop and shut the door on its crimson gaze.
▪ Lucker murmurs something to Jasper and leads him away closing the door on me.
▪ She closed the door on them.
▪ The previous owner had used a bathroom off one of the bedrooms as storage and simply closed the door on it.
shut/close the stable door after the horse has bolted
squeeze your eyes shut
▪ He squeezed his eyes shut and swore silently to give himself courage.
▪ Isabel squeezed her eyes shut for a second.
▪ Just in case, he also crossed his legs and squeezed his eyes shut.
▪ She squeezed her eyes shut and clenched her fists tight.
▪ She squeezed her eyes shut tightly, feeling the sting of tears behind her eyelids.
▪ Shiona gripped the steering-wheel and squeezed her eyes shut and slowly counted up to ten.
▪ The boy squeezed his eyes shut and stopped moving.
▪ With a groan she squeezed her eyes shut.
wedge sth open/shut
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He sat with his eyes tightly shut.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cameron was staring at the shut door.
▪ Her eyes kept flickering shut, though, and they finally stayed closed as she gently snoozed.
▪ I heard a car pull up in front of the apartment and heard the door slam shut.
▪ She gives this a silken hinge and attaches gravel to its underside so that it will fall shut under its own weight.
▪ She was snapped out of her reverie as the door clicked shut and the secretary left them alone again.
▪ The door slammed shut and he bolted it.
▪ The doors slammed shut and the grey van drove off towards the exit, rejoining the northward rush of motorway traffic.
▪ Then the door slammed shut and next moment she was asleep.