"candle" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- You couldn't hold a candle to him - not many of us could.
- But out here, in the real world, you can't hold a candle to me.
- "But the past doesn't hold a candle to what's going to be made in the future."
- A few will hold candles, but the effect is lost in the television lights.
- "And why were you holding a candle to the window?"
- Well, and I've been holding a candle for him all that time.
- Those trips didn't hold a candle to where she'd be going now.
- Not even drugs, or fast cars can hold a candle to the power of the female form.
- "This year will have a very hard time holding a candle to that," he said.
- I'm going to prove to her once and for all that girls can't hold a candle to guys in the sports department.
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