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snap up
Meaning: to get something quickly so you don't miss out
For example:
- be snapped up The tickets went on sale at 9 o'clock, and by 10 o'clock they'd all been snapped up.
- snap up sth The government bonds were paying an interest rate of 8 percent, so people were snapping up as many as they could get.
- snap sth up Lots of magazines would snap the photos up if they had the chance to buy them from the photographer.
Quick Quiz:
The apartments were being snapped up because they were
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