bring something out of mothballs

bring something out of mothballs
bring something out of mothballs
Fig. to bring something out of storage and into use; to restore something to active service. •

They were going to bring a number of ships out of mothballs, but the war ended before they needed them.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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