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Idioms and Phrases

In one's charge or close guidance; along with one. For example, The older girl took the new student in tow , or Peter always had his family in tow . This expression alludes to the literal meaning of being pulled along. [Early 1700s]

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Along Hollywood Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon, Canadian tourist Harpreet Kaur, 24, perused shops with her cousins and uncle in tow.

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There’s a man driving around Southern California in a kid’s Tesla Cybertruck with a Siberian husky riding shotgun and a large Mexican flag in tow.

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He often runs the entire length of the aisles and travels up to the last row of the balcony, cordless camera and operator in tow.

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When The King was charging down a fairway with his army in tow, the Golden Bear was matching him birdie for birdie a few holes behind, and the Black Knight kept hitting his irons inside five feet, nobody thought golf was boring.

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He took an assistant job at Arizona State in 2012 and moved into a furnished place in Tempe, with only his clothes in tow.

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