BAD DREAM collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of bad and dream
bad
adjective
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/bæd/us
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dream
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/driːm/us
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a series of events or images that happen in your mind when you ...
Examples of bad dream
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He cast a dark shadow over the country's sense of well-being, a bad dream that would not go away.
They also claim the kin they choose, dismissing the recent past, for now, like a bad dream.
Thus, the pattern of mental health effects associated with dream recall is not straightforward, for both good and bad dream recall were associated with some, although different, psychological symptoms.
Chronic long-term disability is like a bad dream which never goes away and can only get worse.
It is like a bad _dream_—housing and more housing.
But perhaps all this is just a bad dream.
These debates are like a bad dream that keeps turning up; we do not seem to make an awful lot of progress.
Although many people want to erase the dome from their memories as a bad dream, the structure should not be erased.
Last year when we discussed these matters it all seemed something of a bad dream.
The exercise of cutting on the scale being rumoured at the moment will seem like a bad dream which we ought never to have wished on ourselves.
For schoolchildren, business users, leisure users and the disabled, every journey is like a bad dream, and too many are like a nightmare, and they are getting worse, not better.
It can be read as a bad dream or a soap opera about the banality of evil.
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Desperately, he tells her it is all a bad dream, and she, surprisingly, believes him.
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He woke up only to have a bad dream.
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Traditionally, one also fasted upon awakening from an unexpected bad dream although this tradition is rarely kept nowadays.
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When she contacts him, he assures her that it was just a bad dream.
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The book intrudes on our better-regulated world like a bad dream from the grandparental past.
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The song is like a bad dream but it's not a bad dream, it's not a terrible dream.
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She decides that she has had a bad dream.
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If they have a bad dream, one of the clods is thrown away.
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