put 'em away

Example Sentences

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“You have to get ‘em, put ‘em away, you lose ‘em.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2012

There'd been some complaints about it, and I heard the flag officer say: 'Shall I take your bottle of sweets down to the cabin, sir, and put 'em away?'

From Time Magazine Archive

“I just coulda sworn I heard a rustling in the garbage cans. I bet Michael didn’t put ’em away, neither.”

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

It ain’t the square deal to put ’em away without a word, even if they were the worst scrubs in creation.

From With Hoops of Steel by Smith, Dan

An' then I remember as her night-clothes wasn't on the bed yisterday mornin'; I thought she'd put 'em away to be washed; but she hedn't, for I've been lookin'.

From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George