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put the tin lid on

• be the culmination of a series of acts or events that makes a situation unbearable.
• "injury scares put the tin lid on a desperately troubled week"

put a lid on

• put a stop to.
• "it's time to put the lid on all the talk"
Similar: stop, control, finish, end, put an end to, be the end of, put a stop to, put paid to, destroy,


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