could

UK /kəd/ US /kəd/

noun 1

Definitions

noun

Something that could happen, or could be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.

When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.

Shushona you must learn to rightfully prioritize all the woulds, shoulds and coulds of your life.

Collocations

ADJ.

cool, happy, heated, hot, pretty, worst

The argument between them got pretty heated and could have ended their friendship.

VERB + COULD

say, wish

I wish I could say that everything went according to plan, but it didn't.

COULD + NOUN

anyone, cook, dial, egg, japan, languages, sunset

My grandmother could cook the most delicious meals from scratch every Sunday.

PREP.

about, on

I could hear the neighbors arguing about money through the thin apartment walls.

ADV.

again, always

She could always find something to worry about, even when everything was fine.

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Idioms & Phrases

one could hear a pin drop

Extremely quiet, for example, as during a lull in a normally bustling place or scene, or at a sudden dramatic or tense moment.

Told the waiter Big Joe was settin' me up / Aw!, you coulda heard a pin drop, it got deathly quiet / And the waiter's face turned kinda white

I could eat a horse

I am very hungry.

She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.

could not get elected dogcatcher

Said of someone, particularly a politician, who is extremely unpopular.

An insolent Republican newspaper asserts that Mr. [Grover] Cleveland is so unpopular in Washington that he could not be elected dog catcher for the district. This may be true, yet

could I see the menu, please

Said in a restaurant, to ask for the menu.

only Nixon could go to China

Only a politician or leader with an impeccable reputation of upholding particular political values could perform an action in seeming defiance of them without jeopardizing his support or credibility.

Example Bank

When the golf ball is there, the whole self-interference package — the hopes, worries, and fears; the thoughts on how-to and how-not-to; the woulds, the coulds, and the shoulds — is there too.

Wiktionary

Shushona you must learn to rightfully prioritize all the woulds, shoulds and coulds of your life.

Wiktionary

If the world weren't in the shape it is now, I could trust anyone.

Tatoeba · #1319

Let's consider the worst that could happen.

Tatoeba · #1353

If I could send you a marshmallow, Trang, I would.

Tatoeba · #1365

I wish I could go to Japan.

Tatoeba · #1393

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