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pile into
Idioms and Phrases
Move in a disorderly group into, crowd into, as in The team piled into the bus . The related expression pile in takes no object, as in Jack opened the car door and yelled, “Pile in!” [First half of 1800s]Example Sentences
His tariff policy has led investors to pile into assets outside the United States, weakening the greenback and lifting other currencies alongside gold.
And Val had his van from high school, so we would all pile into Val's van and go over to Mexico for dinner.
On the other hand, any good news boosts share prices even if current profits, or even losses, don't change at all, as investors pile into what they think is the future winner.
He and his brother and cousins would pile into his uncle’s station wagon and made their way to downtown Los Angeles, where the family would go shopping.
People are escaping carrying mattresses and other such essentials on their backs, while dozens pile into overcrowded wooden boats.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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