mothballs

Idioms and Phrases

see put in mothballs .

Example Sentences

“It reeks of mothballs and camphor and...squirrel. I like to have suffocated.”

From Literature

I may still need to get my megaphone out of mothballs after all.

From Seattle Times

Weed killer, solvents, mothballs, swimming pool chemicals, paint thinner and stripper, herbicides, fluorescent light tubes.

From Seattle Times

The Russian military has responded by bringing their 60-year-old T-62 tanks out of mothballs, British military officials said Monday in an intelligence assessment.

From Washington Times

After Warner was elected, she got sweet revenge when she took her purple Halston pantsuit out of mothballs and wore it proudly to a luncheon thrown for her by the Republican ladies.

From Washington Post