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"My wife could go through half a million clams in a week."

"We had our eyes on these clams for two years!"

It seems to me that they should go look in the water for clams.

The clam can be used by several players on a team while the rest are running a man defense.

He'd open her up soon enough, just like a clam.

But the big competition is to find a new use for clams.

"Certainly the numbers for hard clams have been bad in the last several years," he said.

The only thing I put in raw are the clams.

Add the clams and cook for about 7 minutes, until they open.

Most of the time I shut up like a clam.

Many of them are known under the common name the horse clam.

Cook about 5 minutes, until all the clams have opened.

You put your feet in the water and scrub the clams.

Cover and cook until the clams open, five to seven minutes.

With his son Michael, he opened a clam bar in 1946.

Clean the clams; do not use any that are open.

She was looking for the clam on the half shell.

In other words, writers at times use clams because they are part of the cultural moment.

We park for a while, then stop in a local clam joint.

"What I saw him do was clam up and ask for a lawyer."

"At least I'd like to get a few clams out of this."

If I cut loose to stop them, they'll close up like clams.

With luck, some clams will come up in that first effort.

The best known is pork and clams, but there are several.

He had time on his hands, and the local clam population was booming.

A lot of people just clam up and keep to themselves these days.

And of course that's when he started to clam up.

They were clamming up because he was getting too close.

Either no one knows anything or they are clamming up.

If I asked him questions straight out, he might clam up.

Or maybe you'd just clam up and ask for a lawyer.

But they're both clamming up on some parts of the story.

I'll find a use for it when some politician clams up.

As the appointment began to seem certain, they clammed up.

Wish I could get him to come out and talk to you guys, but he's clammed up on us.

It'll be interesting to see if my sources clam up on this thing.

As the questions became more technical, the two men suddenly clammed up.

That decade is here, but the editor has decided to clam up.

Settled into practice a few years later, doctors clam up.

"At other times, it seems it's just too much and he clams up."

Companies will clam up or issue a lot of pap.

Asked for some details, they all laughed and clammed up.

"Try to put them on the air and they'll clam up.

Other times, she would clam up tight, not even acknowledge questions.

There are still a few people able to make a living off clamming on the bay, but it's nothing like it was.

He is retired now, but recently agreed to go clamming with a friend.

When I pressed her for details, she quickly clammed up.

They turned to go into the student rooms, saw me and clammed up completely.

"Well all the more reason for you to clam up about it," he warned.

Then his sergeant arrived in person and he clammed up.