pack sb in
— phrasal verb with pack uk/pæk/us/pæk/verb
(END RELATIONSHIP)
UK informal to end your relationship with someone, or to stop meeting or spending time with them:
"Is Emma still seeing Joe?" "No, she's packed him in."
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
- walk away
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(BE POPULAR)
If an entertainment or exhibition packs people in, a large number of people come to see it:
Spielberg's new film is packing in the crowds.
The latest computer exhibition is really packing them in.
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Liked, or not liked, by many people
- acquire
- an acquired taste idiom
- be in sb's good/bad books idiom
- be the new rock and roll idiom
- be welcome to idiom
- cross
- flavour of the month idiom
- gain
- golden boy/girl
- killer app
- lose
- lose ground idiom
- must-have
- pack
- pop
- top-rated
- undesirable
- unlovable
- unpopular
- unwanted
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