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To shut a building or a business for a period of time.
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The car factory has closed up for the August holidays.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
More phrases:
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- fall in
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- phase in
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- swear off
- take a stand
- take on
- take to
- tide over
- tumble to
- all duck or no dinner
- all that jazz
- apple of somebody's eye
- at heart
- beat around the bush
- bite one's tongue
- blaze a trail
- check is in the mail
- common-or-garden
- creature comfort
- elbow room
- first port of call
- follow through
- from cover to cover
- from time to time
- get into trouble
- hammer home
- hand in hand
- have truck with
- heart to heart
- in black and white
- in line
- in order
- jump the gun
- keep an eye peeled
- look like
- make out like a bandit
- off and on
- old stick
- on hold
- on one's toes
- one another
- one thousand
- one-off
- party pooper
- penny pincher
- piece of cake
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- price on one's head
- roll out the red carpet
- rough around the edges
- seat-of-the-pants
- see the light
- send up
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