"painting" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Admire her velvet Elvis painting on the wall, or her commemorative plates from the Franklin Mint, or whatever she had going in the way of trailer decoration; I'd let Kyra show me her bedroom and exclaim with wonder over her excellent assortment of stuffed animals and her favorite dolly, if that was required.
- They were immediately hurtling through a darkness so intense that is should have had Elvis paintings on it.
- Steal someone's favorite velvet Elvis painting?
- "Is it the same order of monks that produces all those Elvis paintings on velvet?"
- It has become a point of reference, firmly planted along the gaudy midway of the American psyche, next to corn dogs and black-velvet Elvis paintings.
- A number of songs reference velvet Elvis paintings: Alan Jackson's "Little Man" mentions a store that sells them; Switchfoot's "Poparazzi" mentions the paintings being sold "on the 90210"; Lard's "Sidewinder" has the lyrics "Slither into town/In the velvet Elvis night".
- To the Editor: Re "The Flowers That Bloom in Spring, Ha Ha" by William L. Hamilton (April 6): Now I know what to put in front of my Elvis painting on black velvet - plastic poinsettias.
- I own a Bugazzi for the same reason that some people own velvet Elvis paintings.
- When his vehicle needed to be towed, he gives the rifle to a man named Harvey Kline (commonly known as Harv) and an Elvis painting.
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