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in tow
Idioms and Phrases
In one's charge or close guidance; along with one. For example, The older girl took the new student in tow , or Peter always had his family in tow . This expression alludes to the literal meaning of being pulled along. [Early 1700s]Example Sentences
When The King was charging down a fairway with his army in tow, the Golden Bear was matching him birdie for birdie a few holes behind, and the Black Knight kept hitting his irons inside five feet, nobody thought golf was boring.
He took an assistant job at Arizona State in 2012 and moved into a furnished place in Tempe, with only his clothes in tow.
Marta said she and her husband left their village in southern Mexico about a decade ago, their first child in tow.
This time it appears that much of his time in 2024 was spent with Netflix cameras in tow.
Then she took the man, while he was still under the influence of drugs, to Mexico City with her daughter in tow, prosecutors said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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