same as lock away
to invest your money in something, so that it is not available for you to spend
to lock all the doors and windows of a building so that no one can get in
He had too much residual anger from the time he'd spent in the lock-up.
He was locked up for 12 years for armed robbery.
I asked Wayne about investing in Finger Software and he told me to lock up my money.
I followed them as far as their first contact in a lock-up garage in Bradford, then I decided to call it a day.
I locked up and went to bed.
I'll lock up, and besides, I have that boat horn to blast if I need help.
It isn't safe on the road and nobody goes far, and folk lock up early.
It took me just a couple of minutes to retrieve the disc and lock up again.
The documents were locked up.
The last person to leave locks up the shop.
There are vast sums of money locked up in pension funds.
There, as planned, he found a nondescript 1979 Ford Consul waiting for him in a lock-up garage.
locks up
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There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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