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put the lid on

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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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Words related to put the lid on

muzzle, dampen, subdue, mute, soft-pedal, envelop, hush, squelch, deaden, stifle, soften, mitigate, placate, assuage, repress, soothe, quell, ameliorate, mollify, allay

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