lock-in

This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.

But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.

Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

The place was used as a lock-up for some time after the incorporation, and the old irons were kept on show for years.

The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.

I do not know—I do not dare to believe—that I shall live to hear that key grating in the lock.

So far Murat had always held subordinate commands; his great ambition was to become the commander-in-chief of an independent army.