Idioms

put (something) in mothballs
to put something in storage
The government decided to put the old ferry in mothballs.

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  • put (something) into practice
  • put (something) into print
  • put (something) into words
  • put (something) on hold
  • put (something) on ice
  • put (something) on paper
  • put (something) on the back burner
  • put (something) on the line
  • put (something) over on (someone)
  • put (something) past (someone)
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  • cash-and-carry
  • make a mountain out of a molehill
  • hit (someone) up for (something)
  • wound up
  • not worth a hill of beans
  • once upon a time
  • open and aboveboard
  • so still you can hear a pin drop
  • without batting an eye
  • come to accept (something)


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