in-basket

Definitions

Examples

• This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

• Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

• Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

• The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.

• But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.

• Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

• About her neck was hung a covered basket and a door-key; and Davy at once concluded that she was Sindbad's house-keeper.

• Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

• Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.

• When the days were fine, Jean in his basket assisted at the dramatic performance in the market-place.