corral someone or something
- corral someone or something
corral someone or something
Fig. to herd someone or something into a corral or other enclosed space. •
It took the cowboys two hours to corral the mustangs.
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The nursery school teacher herded the kids off the playground and corraled them in the classroom.
Dictionary of American idioms.
2013.
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