tuck away

verb

1. to eat (a large amount of food)

2. to store, esp in a place difficult to find

Idioms and Phrases

Eat heartily, as in He tucked away an enormous steak . [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s] Also see tuck into .

Hide, put in storage, as in She had several hundred dollars tucked away . [c. 1900]

Example Sentences

Individual savers are getting extra space to tuck away more.

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The collection was then tucked away into FIDM’s archives until Frank’s colleague posted one of the blazers on Instagram, highlighting the garment’s mesh of “Victorian-style piecework and embroidery with precision mitered tailoring.”

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The rest are tucked away — some owned by people like Rinaudo who play them and put them to use, but most stashed away by private collectors.

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For the most part, the removed statues were tucked away out of sight.

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The scene was dropped in the final edit due to time constraints, ultimately leaving the secret safely tucked away with Bryn, Jason… and Dave Coaches.

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• suppress 
• withhold