Put the lid on
Also, keep the lid on. Suppress, as in I don’t know how but we’ll have to put the lid on that rumor about her, or Let’s keep the lid on our suspicions. The word lid here is used in the sense of “a cover for a container.” [ Early 1900s ]
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verb phrase To make sexual advances; MAKE A PASS AT someone: The codger was horny and put the make on the lady cop (1970s+)
- Put them in the aisles
Related Terms lay them in the aisles
- Put the moves on
verb phrase To try to seduce someone:put the moves on her lab partner
- Put the pedal to the metal
modifier Regulating or deregulating highway speeds: President Clinton will sign what friends and foes alike call ”the pedal to the metal bill” verb phrase To accelerate; go fast; give it the gun: Bolan settled back on creaky springs, and put the pedal to the metal (1980s+)
- Put the screws to someone
verb phrase To use extreme coercive pressure; harass; PUT THE HEAT ON someone: The only reason Fidel agreed was to put the screws to Reagan [1940s+; fr a torturer’s use of thumbscrews; put the screws on is found by 1834]