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• all-out war
• bear fruit
• come to pass
• couple with
• cramp one's style
• empty threat
• insinuation
• keep a lid on
• live to fight another day
• Molotov cocktail
• nuttier than a fruitcake
• piehole
• priceless
• schoolmarm
• slide back
• untimely

keep a lid on

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释义
控制事态发展
to keep the level of something from increasing drastically or beyond what is undesirable or dangerous

例句
Cavanaugh: You psychotic bloodsuckers. Roman was the only one keeping a lid on this. He was the only one stopping the world from sliding back into the Dark Ages. (True Blood)
卡瓦诺：你们这群变态的吸血狂，罗曼是控制事态的唯一人选，只有他能阻止世界退回到黑暗年代。（真爱如血）