COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY►somebody new/different/good etc
We need somebody neutral to sort this out.
►somebody else
If you can’t make it Friday, we can invite somebody else (=a different person).
►or somebody
‘Who can we get to babysit?’ ‘I’ll call Suzie or somebody.’
used to mean a person, when you do not know or do not say who the person isSYN someone → anybody, everybody, nobody: There’s somebody waiting to see you. Somebody’s car alarm kept me awake all night.somebody new/different/good etc We need somebody neutral to sort this out. If you can’t make it Friday, we can invite somebody else (=a different person). ‘Who can we get to babysit?’ ‘I’ll call Suzie or somebody.’
somebody1pronounsomebody2noun
somebodysomebody2 nounExamples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
A white person was by definition somebody.
Which just goes to prove, you do have to be a somebody to get ahead in this town!
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY►be somebody
She's living in hope that she might be somebody one day.
Almost every interview-but there was somebody he wanted to go back and see.
It was somebody young, he said.
Or it might not: Voters dislike opportunists and political chameleons who pretend they are somebody they are not.
The best Rather could do was enthuse about shadowy figures in crowds who might or might not be somebody guilty of something.
The rest is somebody else's business.
To be somebody who is excited about reading a book or learning something, or seeing something.
To one side will be somebody from the appropriate city department.
When should you tell Mountain Rescue that you think there might be somebody in danger?
be somebody to be or feel important: She was the first teacher who’d made Paul feel like he was somebody.