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Idioms and Phrases

see put in mothballs .

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Example Sentences

We rented the house, put our belongings in mothballs, and left on February 20.

No more, no more will robins nest within their lilac shade, for they are folded now and pressed, and with the mothballs laid.

The house was over-warm, and there was a musty smell of over-aged furniture, old leather, and the pungence of mothballs.

He smelled faintly of mothballs and looked very respectable.

Couldn't you fix hit up in terbaccy er mothballs ag'in' de time I need hit?

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