corked up

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corked up (not comparable)

  1. Stoppered with a cork.
  2. (figurative) Unable to speak; silenced.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:
      He shut up suddenly, corked up by a special item in his list of martyrdoms that squandered him to gloom.

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