ADJ
- big, strong
- flood, incoming, rising
- ebb, outgoing
- full, high
- low
- neap, spring
VERB + TIDE
- catch (= to take advantage of a favourable tide)
- We have to get up early to catch the tide
TIDE + VERB
- be in
- be out
- come/flow in, rise
- ebb, fall, flow/go out, retreat
- be on the turn, turn
- occur
- the time of day when the highest tides occur
- wash sb/sth up
- The body was washed up by the tide the next day
PREP
- at … ~
- Seals lie on the rocks at low tide
- on a/the ~
- We went out to sea on the ebb tide
PHRASES
- the ebb and flow of the tide
ADJ
- growing, rising
- the rising tide of crime
- shifting
- political
- He hasn't the courage to swim against the political tide
VERB + TIDE
- go with
- go/swim against
- stem, turn (back)
- attempts to stem the tide of revolution
TIDE + VERB
- run
- Seeing the tide was now running in his direction, he renewed his campaign for reform
- carry sb/sth along
- turn
- The tide of public opinion seems to be turning at last
PREP
- against a/the ~
- It takes courage to speak out against the tide of public opinion
- on a ~
- They were carried along on a tide of euphoria
- ~ against, ~ in favour of
- Civil liberties groups helped to turn the tide against industrial violence
PHRASES
- a tide of history
- the shifting tides of history
- the turn of the tide
- In the early 1990s there was a marked turn of the tide