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

Well, if you don’t want ’em—But put ’em away, dear Anne; they are for you, because you have kept my counsel. 

From The Trumpet-Major by Hardy, Thomas

"Look's like you'd know enough to put 'em away where they wouldn't ketch dust!"

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell