cork up
Example Sentences
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A good mixer and orator, he likes to "pull the cork up in their throats at least once."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Kwangtung supply line, which the Japanese last week tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road.
From Time Magazine Archive
But suppose you was to cork up a bottle, or clap the lid on an empty biscuit-tin, and heave ’em overboard, do you think they’d live through one or t’other?
From The Secret of the Sands The "Water Lily" and her Crew by Collingwood, Harry
I tell ye there's a heap o' perfumes 'raound that ye can't buy at a flower-store and cork up in a bottle.
From The Under Dog by Smith, Francis Hopkinson
If you cannot find enough ripe to fill a bottle, cork up what you have got until you have some more fit: they may be added from day to day.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
