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Idioms and Phrases

Through someone, by way of someone, as in I sent the gift in care of your parents . This phrase indicates that something is to be delivered to someone at someone else's address. [Mid-1800s] Also see in charge , def. 3.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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