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- bring out of mothballs
bring out of mothballs
bring something out of mothballs
Fig. to bring something out of storage and into use; to restore something to active service. They were going to bring a number of ships out of mothballs, but the war ended before they needed them.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Seraiah | | - | Biblical, Biblical Hebrew |
| Naseem | | nah-SEEM (Arabic) | Arabic, Urdu |
| Eha | | - | Estonian |
| Yildirim | | - | Turkish |
| Aidan | | AY-dən | Irish, Scottish, English (Modern) |
| Letizia | | le-TEE-tsyah | Italian |