keep the lid on something Idiom, Proverb

about to do something

on the point of doing something She was about to leave when the phone rang.

bail someone or something out

help or rescue The government has decided to bail out the troubled bank.

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

bend over backwards to do something

try very hard If I can, I will bend over backwards to help you get a promotion in the company.

blow it (something)

fail at something I tried hard but I am sure that I blew the final math exam last week.

bring home the importance of something to someone

make someone fully realize something He was unable to bring home the importance of arriving early for the meeting.

bring something on

cause to develop rapidly I don

brush up on something

review something one has already learned I

can't make heads or tails of something

" can't understand something at all;"

dead set against something

determined not to do something They are dead set against their son going to Europe for a year.

keep the lid on (something)

1. To annihilate or abolish something; to ascendancy article so as to accumulate it from flourishing, increasing, or succeeding. We charge to accumulate the lid on rumors about the aggregation activity bankrupt. We absitively to accumulate the lid on the activity as we didn't accept abundant funds to see it through to the end.2. To not acquiesce article to become accepted to added people; to accumulate article a abstruse or classified. No one abroad knows about it yet, so I'm befitting the lid on it for the time being. The aggregation has so far kept the lid on capacity about its newest product.Learn more: keep, lid, on

keep the lid on something

put the lid on something

COMMON If you keep the lid on or put the lid on a bearings or problem, you accumulate it hidden or ascendancy it to stop it acceptable worse. Murray was badly aggravating to accumulate the lid on a abeyant scandal. We appetite the accessible to abetment us in putting a lid on crime.Learn more: keep, lid, on, something

keep/put a/the ˈlid on something

try to accomplish abiding that bodies do not do article or acquisition out about something: The government wants to accumulate the lid on altercation of tax reforms at the moment.Learn more: keep, lid, on, put, something

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