to arrange for something to happen or for someone to do something, knowing that it may have to be changed later
'No,' said Julia, thinking all the way back to the insouciant little girl poking her hard in the leg with a pencil in Year One.
He was still wearing his school blazer, and there was a stub of pencil in the top pocket.
Pencil me in for lunch on Friday.
There was a pencil in his hand and he pointed at the picture.
pencils in
pencilling in
pencilled in
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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