| 释义 |
keep a (or the) lid oninformal 1Keep (an emotion or process) from going out of control: she couldn’t keep the lid on her simmering anger...- He was barely able to keep a lid on them, using secret police and brutal repression.
- He fits the profile of the classic moderate New York Democrat, like his predecessor, who frequently fought to keep a lid on taxes in the city.
- The only thing that kept the lid on everything was not the secret police or army but a system of intricate favours with just enough people lining their pockets and everyone owing the big man.
1.1Keep secret: she keeps a very tight lid on her private life...- Yet competing media outlets, anxious to preserve their access, obligingly kept the lid on.
- But who are the people who are keeping the lid on all this?
- It's not just the reporters who are keeping a lid on all the good things going on.
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