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glued to

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glued to someone or something
Fig. following someone everywhere; very close to or touching something. His little sister was glued to him all afternoon. Finally he sent her home.
See also: glue

glued to something
giving something your full attention During football season, he's glued to the TV. She has her ears glued to her CD player all the time.
See also: glue


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HUNCA MUNCA tried every tin spoon in turn; the fish was glued to the dish.
The poor boy still clung on as if glued to the glass by his blood-stained hands.
The first pupil whom the Abbé de Saint Pierre de Val, at the moment of beginning his reading on canon law, always perceived, glued to a pillar of the school Saint-Vendregesile, opposite his rostrum, was Claude Frollo, armed with his horn ink-bottle, biting his pen, scribbling on his threadbare knee, and, in winter, blowing on his fingers.
 
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