tuck away
Britishverb
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to eat (a large amount of food)
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to store, esp in a place difficult to find
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Eat heartily, as in He tucked away an enormous steak . [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s] Also see tuck into .
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Hide, put in storage, as in She had several hundred dollars tucked away . [c. 1900]
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The limit applies to most other appropriations of tax revenue, including money that lawmakers tuck away into the “rainy day” fund and other reserves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Kitaj is the most melancholy of all the likenesses, and the only one that Ashbery did not tuck away but placed against a fireplace in an upstairs sitting room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Individual savers are getting extra space to tuck away more.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2025
It’s a meal I’ll make again, the kind you tuck away not just as a recipe, but as proof that there’s more to be found in the ordinary than you thought.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2025
“You gave me a good excuse to tuck away a couple extra,” Dad said, patting his stomach.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
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