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词汇 hunting-ground
释义 hunting ground
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈhʌn.tɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/ us /ˈhʌn.t̬ɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd/
a place where you can find a lot of what you are looking for: 能找到(大量所寻之物)的地方
happy hunting groundFlea markets are happy hunting grounds for people looking for antiques.跳蚤市场是那些淘古董者的乐园。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Searching
-seeking
beachcomb
beachcomber
beachcombing
body search
bounty hunter
comb
hunt someone/something down
hunter
keep your/an eye out for someone/somethingidiom
leave no stone unturnedidiom
lookout
manhunt
needle
scout
scrounge around
search
seek someone/something out
seeker
troll

Examples of hunting ground


hunting ground
Poverty and a lack of education help to create a favourable huntingground, which can be exploited by fundamentalists.
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This will be a very happy huntingground for the burglars.
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What a happy huntingground for the agitator anxious to justify his position!
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I fear that this will be a happy huntingground for local authorities that are reluctant to see the provision work.
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There is a happy huntingground in all this business of complex qualifications for irresponsible politicians to stir up suspicions and unrest.
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It will be a happy huntingground for the legal profession for many years to come.
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It is almost a form of folklore—a happy huntingground for every barrack-room lawyer.
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One can say that the whole cargo-handling zone is to be a happy huntingground for licensed poaching.
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I have never believed that this should be a happy huntingground for lawyers.
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I fear that we might be creating a happy huntingground for lawyers who are seeking to find loopholes in the law.
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I realise that the cost of drugs is a happy huntingground for people who wish to make economies.
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We do not believe that this country should be the happy huntingground of moneylenders.
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The whole area is a happy huntingground for cowboys.
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There is great apprehension that this clause may become a happy huntingground for what are graphically described as "sea lawyers".
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The tribunals were set up in this informal form to prevent what is called a happy huntingground or paradise for lawyers.
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