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Phrase(s): pad something out
Fig. to make something appear to be larger or longer by adding unnecessary material. • If we pad the costume out here, it will make the person who wears it look much plumper. • Let’s pad out this paragraph a little., Phrase(s): pad out
Sl. to go to bed or to sleep. • Man, if I don’t pad out by midnight, I’m a zombie. • Why don’t you people go home so I can pad out?
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs