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To shut a building or a business for a period of time.
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The car factory has closed up for the August holidays.
Submitted on August 31, 2012
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- answer on a postcard
- as good as one's word
- bang up job
- be all ears
- been there, done that
- bent on
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- hit someone for six
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- in the works
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