Idiom
put the lid on somethingput the lid on (something)
British, old-fashioned if something that happens puts the lid on a plan, it causes the plan to fail.When James resigned that put the lid on the whole project.
put the lid on (something)
1. To induce something's failure. Unfortunately, a broken leg put the lid on my vacation to the ski resort.
2. To quash or suppress something; to control something so as to keep it from flourishing, increasing, or succeeding. We need to put the lid on rumors about the company going bankrupt. We decided to put the lid on the project since we didn't have enough funds to see it through to the end.
keep/put a/the ˈlid on something
try to make sure that people do not do something or find out about something: The government wants to keep the lid on discussion of tax reforms at the moment.put the (tin) ˈlid on something
(British English, informal) bring to an end an activity, your hopes or plans: I’ve got a place at an American university but I can’t afford to go, so that’s put the lid on that.It rained and rained, which put the tin lid on our plans for a picnic in the park.- chat them up
- chatty
- chatty, catty and scatty
- chatty-chatty
- chat up
- chat-up line
- chat us up
- chat you up
- chaud
- chauvinism
- chauvinist
- chauvinist pig
- chauvinist pigs
- chav
- chavtastic
- chavvie
- chavvy
- fit somebody with
- fit someone for
- fit someone in with
- fit someone in with someone
- fit someone in with something
- fit someone like a glove
- fit (someone) like a glove
- fit someone out
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- 衢州药王山景区
- 太真洞
- 衢江九坛沟景区
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- 紫薇山
- 一线天
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- 沅陵县（沅陵镇）
- 沆
- 沈
- 沈
- 沈
- 沈
- 沈一乐
- 沈一英
- 沈一飞
- 沈丁昌
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