Most of the best paintings in the exhibition were already spoken for.
old-fashioned
If someone is spoken for, they are not available for a romantic relationship because they are already having one with someone else:
Both girls were spoken for.
- booked up
- busy
- busy signal
- discontinued
- engaged
- gone
- impenetrability
- impenetrable
- insusceptible
- irrecoverable
- irrecoverably
- lost
- out-of-pocket
- tie
- tie someone up
- unaccounted for
- unavailability
- unavailable
- unreachable
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