What does ‘patronizing’ mean?doesdoes /dəz; strong dʌz/ 
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES What does ‘patronizing’ mean? ‘I don’t have any money.’ ‘Neither do I.’ Tom didn’t believe a word she said, and neither did the police. She always does the weekly shop on a Friday. Jerry says he does two hundred sit-ups a day. I’ll come over to Richmond and take you out for dinner. How does that sound (=used to ask someone what they think of your suggestion)?
What does ‘patronizing’ mean? ‘I don’t have any money.’ ‘Neither do I.’ Tom didn’t believe a word she said, and neither did the police.· Rarely does such a good investment opportunity arise.
She always does the weekly shop on a Friday. Jerry says he does two hundred sit-ups a day. I’ll come over to Richmond and take you out for dinner. How does that sound (=used to ask someone what they think of your suggestion)?PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► easy does it► gently/gently does it!► the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing► there’s no harm in doing something/it does no harm to do something► it does your heart good to see/hear something
the third person singular of the present tense of do- And as is the way of things in nature, given sufficient heat and hammering, the result is forged steel.
- For his contemporaries, Gloucester clearly filled a double role, as is illustrated by his dealings with the city of York.
- In fact, as is clearly illustrated by this data, inequalities are relatively consistent throughout childhood.
- It is as unique in its way as was the original White Paper.
- It was a small, intimate gathering that was assembled, as was the custom among nice Atchison families.
- Now he desires, as is but right, that my dowry should be returned with me.
- The classic Sinatra phrasing remains intact, as does that easy-breeze delivery.
- The human was now seen as a biomechanical machine, as was the entire universe.
- He tells the chauffeur to go gas up the limo, and what does he care?
- He has just turned 25 years old and the question is: Where does he go from here?
- So where does Dirk go from here?
- The question now is, where does UMass go from here?
- How does going to Hawaii for Christmas grab you?
- I'm not going to listen to Martha. What does she know?
- My chaplain snorts in derision but what does he know?
- We'll do it tomorrow or the next day. What does it matter?
- Hill people, valley people, what does it matter if gullibility remains unaffected by our environments?
- The same as what does it matter whether or not I was a virgin when I met Gillian?
- Well, what does it matter?
- The minute I say something is cute, she'll hate it.
- Been getting hold of a bit of meth, but it's fairly hard to come by at the moment.
- Does it enable them to make the right choice in the heat of the moment?
- In the heat of the moment it does not usually look as if there is anything to be done about the heat.
- In practice, this situation will arise only very rarely if a regime of symptom control and no more has been adopted.
- Men appear to be no more willing to support women in their traditional roles than women are to assume them.