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pack them in
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]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.
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.
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.
Neighbors pack them in boxes to mail to loved ones.
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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