Collocates

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Learning idioms is a way of expanding one's vocabulary. Encourage your students to search for the most frequent collocates of the words they are trying to learn. There are many aspects to know about a word; it's important to know the words that frequently co-occur with the word the students are learning. Encourage your students to get a paper dictionary that provides them with this kind of information. There are some useful online tools such as
http://www.just-the-word.com/