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Meanings of clam in English
Usage of clam in English
1
However the days of the big, clunky, clam shell contraptions are gone.
2
One frigid winter he worked on a clam boat on Long Island.
3
Have a clam and let it stop that orifice in your countenance.
4
The fish and clam men were a great delight to the children.
5
The clam has always remained a clam, the oyster remained an oyster.
6
There were very nice clam and oyster beds along the river then.
7
He settled on the swing, as happy and brainless as a clam.
8
The Erlichs thought him a clam, but Claude sometimes thought himself amazing.
9
Once the butter is incorporated, pour the clam broth over the clams.
10
A large clam shell was all he could think of at present.
11
You might as well try to hurt a clam with a pin.
12
Meanwhile I'll be mum as a clam till you say the word.
13
Her hair dropped on her pallid cheeks, like sea-weed on a clam
14
I give my hens burnt oyster shells, pounded fine, or clam shells.
15
Even a clam would sing like Sinatra when they're finished with him.
16
But Tom was as secretive as a clam, except with Simon Leroux.
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Clam through the time
Clam across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common