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Phrase(s): box something up
to place something in a box. • Please box the books up and put them into the trunk of the car. • Please box up four of these for me., Phrase(s): box someone up
to confine someone in a small area. • Please don’t box me up in that little office. • The boss boxed up Fred in a tiny office. • Why the president boxes himself up in such a little office is beyond me.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs