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- noun Plural form of
mothball .
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Examples
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For now, the GOP is in mothballs ... and may be in its final days of life.
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My Encore is in mothballs, I replaced with a Savage MZ and uses Smokeless Powder and I love it!
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My Encore is in mothballs, I replaced with a Savage MZ and uses Smokeless Powder and I love it!
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Put your three-pointed hats back in mothballs for your next battle over cap and trade.
Think Progress » Limbaugh’s ‘Cheap And Disingenuous’ Call For People To Jam Congressional Phonelines 2010
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At the top you will see the bottom of a blue rosette, in mothballs a bit now, and a picture I once painted of a chair.
Blog Standard Office Newmania 2008
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It's actually similar to naphthalene, the substance used in mothballs, in that it sublimates but can be a crystalline solid at room temperature.
Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006
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You mean that empire which can’t pay it’s soldiers (who are ill-motivated conscripts), who’s once might submarine fleet is now rusting away in mothballs and who’s air force is full of aircraft fit for museums?
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Running a small fleet of 6 vehicles as well as the rest of the business meant that last year I forgot to renew a SORN for a van that was in mothballs (and in the garage under my mother’s flat).
Dog Charlie Fox « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Pee-wee’s signature staccato laugh, dancing eyebrows and drainpipe pants were packed away in mothballs, while Paul Reubens the actor continued to work, drawing raves for performances like that of a wily dope-dealing hairdresser in the 2001 movie “Blow.”
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Gratefully most of my characters are very patient beings and try their hardest to be quiet and non-obtrusive whilst in mothballs.
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