put the lid on

Idioms and Phrases

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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