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pack them in



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Idioms and Phrases

Attract a large audience, as in A big star will always pack them in . This idiom alludes to tightly filling a hall. [c. 1940]
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Example Sentences

The risks feel pretty real for me right now though, so I think overall it's probably better for me to just pack them in.

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Birds and bigger fish eat them, fisheries scoop them out of the ocean with giant nets and pack them in cans or even, in some cases, just grind them up.

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You can cook them in the morning and pack them in a container designed to keep them warm, or perhaps it’s possible to reheat the food on site.

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Neighbors pack them in boxes to mail to loved ones.

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They travel thousands of miles on land to reach the Libyan shores where traffickers pack them in unseaworthy boats to Europe.

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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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