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Put the icing on the cake

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• Put their heads together

  see: put our heads together

• 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 ]

• Put the make on someone

  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

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