file away

Verb

file away (third-person singular simple present files away, present participle filing away, simple past and past participle filed away)

1. (transitive) To store in a file; to get rid of a document by placing it in a file or other storage.
   • Would you help me file away these reports?

   Synonyms:

   archive

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To cause oneself to remember (something); to avoid expressing a feeling, fact or idea until an appropriate time.
   • His words hurt, but I'll file away my emotions until I can get my revenge.
3. (intransitive) To move away in a file.
   • The soldiers filed way at a quick pace.
   • Then, in a moment of sheer grief, he touched Yebby’s tousled hair for the last time and stood back, watching silently as the men filed away, out of the clearing towards the settlement.2011 September 14, Barbara Yates Rothwell, The Boy from the Hulks, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 230