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stay put
Idioms and Phrases
Remain in a fixed or established position, as in I can't get that trellis to stay put , or I'm coming, just stay put till I get there . [First half of 1800s]Example Sentences
But I was born in California and plan to stay put for now, here in the home of the resistance.
A woman in chador sits on the pavement begging to be let into the smoking ruins of an apartment block, but men reason with her to stay put.
The coach dismissed much of the Kupp trade talk as “speculation” and, although he wasn’t definitive, said he believes the receiver will wind up staying put.
Those CO2 molecules will stay put until scientists loosen them up by applying heat.
Many simply stay put or move to another country within the bloc, she said.
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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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