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put the brakes on
idiom(also mainly UKput a brake on)
to slow down or stop an activity: 抑制;控制;制止
The city has put the brakes on further spending.市政府已经控制进一步的开支了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Causing something to end
abandon
abandonment
all good things (must) come to an endidiom
and have done with itidiom
be over the humpidiom
cure
give over
halt
hang
jack something in
kill something stone-deadidiom
lay
lid
lift
snap
stamp on something
stamp something out
stanch
staunch
stem
put the brakes on something/someone | American Dictionary
put the brakes on something/someone
idiom
to slow or stop the progress of something or someone:
Raising taxes now would put the brakes on economic recovery.
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