toy chest
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1.0
- noun
- /tɔɪ tʃɛst/
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cofre de juguetes
- Whenever she wanted to play, she would open the toy chest to find her favorite stuffed animals.
So I had to go in, get every single toy out, wash them, soap them down, clean the inside of the fucking toy chest, and just de sanitize the entire box.
- So I had to go in, get every single toy out, wash them, soap them down, clean the inside of the fucking toy chest, and just de sanitize the entire box.
Examples
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Luckily, I had no new cavities, and for being such a good boy, Josh was allowed to get a small plastic dinosaur from the office toy chest.
Blog text (5) -
And when she was growing up, they could fill only that toy chest and that was it.
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"Look in the toy chest," said Mother.
Fiction book (1997) -
Malachai pulled out a recorder from a toy chest.
Blog text (5) -
My father escorted me back to my room, and I selected Barbie and Ken from my toy chest.
Fiction book (1999) -
She wraps it up in a bunch of towels and puts it in the toy chest so nobody can find it.
Fiction book (1994) -
She walked over to Teddy's toy chest and rummaged around until she found a couple of the old tapes.
Fiction book (1999) -
The children eagerly gathered around the colorful toy chest to see what surprises lay inside.
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After the party, I helped my daughter pick up her toys and put them back in the toy chest.
Synonyms
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1.0
A usually rectangular container with a lid for holding things or the amount it holds
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1.0
A large strong box for storing clothes or valuables
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1.7
A strong wooden box for storing or moving things and the amount inside it
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1.0
A box for keeping children's toys
A box for keeping a child's toys and small personal things
A large strong box used to store valuable or household items
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Morphology
The meaning 'a box for storing children's toys' is directly compositional from 'toy' (children's plaything) + 'chest' (a box or storage piece of furniture). Noun–noun compounds like this are morphologically transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The noun toy chest comes from a simple picture: a wooden chest, a big box, filled with a child's toys. Imagine a painted box overflowing with dolls and blocks, so the phrase means 'a large box for keeping children's toys'.