stick of furniture
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstickandfurniture
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stick
noun
uk/stɪk/us/stɪk/
a thin piece of wood or ...
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furniture
noun[U]
uk/ˈfɜː.nɪ.tʃər/us/ˈfɝː.nɪ.tʃɚ/
things such as chairs, tables, beds, cupboards, etc. that are put into a house or other building to make it suitable and comfortable for living or ...
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(Definition ofstickandfurniturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They were sold three, four or five times without anybody putting astickoffurnitureinto them.
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Some of them have not astickoffurnitureto their names.
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I went into one house which did not have astickoffurnitureupstairs.
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Those elderly people have been left without onestickoffurniture, without one piece of bed clothing and, other than the clothes on their back, they have absolutely nothing.
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That may be the only property— that and the sticks of furniture inside the house—which he has got.
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A man would put a few sticks of furniture into a house, just enough to make the idea of furniture not completely illusory.
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There are a few sticks of furniture—twenty pounds would be a liberal valuation of it.
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The impact of legislation should not depend on whether there are a few sticks of furniture in a room or not.
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He turns the house into furnished accommodation, with a few old sticks of furniture tucked into different rooms.
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People who have a couple of rooms to spare put in a few sticks of furniture and charge anything between £4 and £6 a week.
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The importance of this case is that it demonstrates that it is not a simple matter of landlords shoving a few sticks of furniture into a room.
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We sometimes read about the old ladies and gentlemen living and dying alone in abject poverty, surrounded by miserable sticks of furniture and with almost no bedclothes.
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A family, after a year in bed and breakfast, still needs help to get a few sticks of furniture together, but now such families are not entitled to a grant.
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I wish we could get an utterly new approach to legislation, which would be a landlord-tenant legislation, forgetting about sticks of furniture as being the basis.
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