词汇 | put the genie back in the bottle |
释义 | Idiom put the genie back in the bottle mainly American let the genie out of the bottle - to allow something bad to happen which cannot then be stopped.Now that these sorts of drugs are so widely available, it may be too late to put the genie back in the bottle. put the genie back in the bottleTo attempt to revert a situation to how it formerly existed by containing, limiting, or repressing information, ideas, advancements, etc., that have become commonplace or public knowledge. Almost always used in the negative to denote the impossibility of such an attempt. Many people lament the ubiquity and pervasive nature of social media, but no one will be able to put that particular genie back in the bottle. |
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