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mothballs



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Idioms and Phrases

see put in mothballs .
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“It reeks of mothballs and camphor and...squirrel. I like to have suffocated.”

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I may still need to get my megaphone out of mothballs after all.

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Weed killer, solvents, mothballs, swimming pool chemicals, paint thinner and stripper, herbicides, fluorescent light tubes.

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The Russian military has responded by bringing their 60-year-old T-62 tanks out of mothballs, British military officials said Monday in an intelligence assessment.

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After Warner was elected, she got sweet revenge when she took her purple Halston pantsuit out of mothballs and wore it proudly to a luncheon thrown for her by the Republican ladies.

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