mothball
mawth bawl
- n a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing
- v put into long-term storage
- But he figured his songs would come back, because they always did, always do some annually, like "White Christmas" and "Easter Parade," others in the musical-mothball .
- The two spacecraft share the same design and Phoenix was originally headed to the planet as Mars Surveyor 2001 until the MPL crash prompted NASA to mothball the project.
- Now Gabriel is calling for the government to mothball Germany's eight oldest nuclear plants right away, accusing Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear energy policies of being .