lost in
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lose (someone or something) in (some place)
To misplace or mislay someone or something in some particular location. I lost my phone in the airport somewhere. My parents actually lost me in a supermarket when I was two.
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*lost in something
enveloped in something; engrossed in something. (*Typically: be ~; get ~.) Ed sat under the tree, lost in reverie. Excuse me. I didn't hear you. I was lost in my own thoughts.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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