Ever Plural Nouns
Clothes
- breeches
- coveralls
- dungarees
- flares
- jeans
- leggings
- overalls
- pantaloons
- pants
- pyjamas
- shorts
- slacks
- tights
- trousers
- trousers
scissors,
pliers,
tweezers,
tongs
binoculars,
spectacles,
glasses,
forceps,
shears,
glasses,
scales,
letters,
heebie-jeebies,
fantods,
bare-bones,
arts and crafts,
bacon and eggs,
good manners,
bad manners
baked beans,
bits and pieces,
goods and chattels,
glad rags,
halcyon days,
high spirits,
high jinks,
jazz hands,
ladies and gentlemen,
and last rites,
suds,
thanks,
congratulations,
cahoots,
shenanigans,
amends,
loggerheads,
smithereens,
annals (pages of books of history),
damages,
earnings,
goods,
wares,
grounds,
pains,
troubles,
particulars,
premises,
proceeds,
roadworks,
riches,
savings,
spirits,
stairs,
cattle,
archives,
arms (weapons),
arrears,
ashes (of a dead cremated body),
auspices (patronage),
bowels, brains (intellect),
contents,
customs (duty),
earnings,
entrails,
fireworks,
funds (money),
goods,
guts (bowels, courage),
letters (in the expression ‘a man of letters’),
lodgings,
looks (e.g. She has got attractive looks),
manners (in the expression ‘good manners’),
nuts and bolts,
odds (in the expression ‘heavy odds’, the odds are a hundred to one…),
outskirts,
pains (e.g. to take pains),
premises (building),
reserves,
riches (wealth, ‘from rags to riches’),
stairs (e.g. a flight of stairs),
in the suburbs,
surroundings (environment),
thanks,
troops,
tropics,
valuables,
wages,
proceeds,
tidings,
nuptials,
alms, drawers, etc.
Examples
About a year after his nuptials, there came into the world a lusty young baron, in whose honour a great many fireworks were let off.
Clothes don’t make the man.
Bits and pieces of the past now and then race through her mind.
The proceeds of the campaign have been spent on the construction of the Children's Care Centre.
Roadworks are being held there to build a new pedestrian crossing.
A close-up camera showed a man running somewhere. His face was bruised and his clothes were torn.
The premises the company has moved are big enough.
Lodgings are currently too expensive.
Our surroundings are too severe for such birds and they leave them early in September.
The crossroads are rather tense near the supermarket.
There are temporary traffic lights because of the roadworks.
Police conduct random breath tests.
Nature reserve swere set up around new power stations to mollify local conservationists.