Cage (someone or something) up (in something) In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "cage (someone or something) up (in something)", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Zesty Y calendar 2021-12-06 10:12

Meaning of Cage (someone or something) up (in something)

Cage (someone or something) up (in something) verb phrase

To keep a person or an animal in a particular space

Before being rescued, these three bears were all caged up in only one stuffy and filthy metal box.

I don't know how the dog got out. I remembered caging the dog up before going to sleep last night.

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a put up job

Something that is prepared and planned to deceive, cheat, trick or fool someone

tangle up

1. Become twisted into an untidy mass or mixed together.
2. To make someone/something unable to escape from something.
3. ​To involve someone in a difficult or complicated situation. (usually passive)
 

dry gulch one

If you say you dry gulch one, you mean that you hide and wait for him and then make a sudden attack.

pen up

To confine or imprison someone or an animal within a pen or a similarly tiny, limited place.

Grammar and Usage of Cage (someone or something) up (in something)

Verb Forms

  • caged (someone or something) up (in something)
  • caging (someone or something) up (in something)
  • cages (someone or something) up (in something)

The verb " cage" must be conjugated according to its tense.

Origin of Cage (someone or something) up (in something)

This phrase is formed based on the meaning of the verb "cage".

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