Comb
Comb verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Watch
Watch verb - To keep one's eyes on.
Common collocations
| time | comb time | watch time |
Both words in one sentence
- From the Something Awful review of the movie The House That Screamed: "I'm not saying I disliked the film, I'm just saying that I'd rather rip all of my teeth out with rusty pliers, make them into a comb, and use the comb made of my own teeth to scrape all of my skin off than watch it again."
- Jingo gently winds up the tendency of shampoos to use "herbs" when the Watch investigates Snowy Slopes, the Man With the Steel-Toothed Comb, who has tried virtually every hair care product available in Ankh-Morpork to treat his horrendous dandruff, mostly on the virtue that they have herbs.
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