put the brakes on sth

put the brakes on sth to stop something that is happening阻止某事物

• push the button
• tung nut
• (all) by himself
• discoursing
• arrive reach a conclusion
• Virginia fence
• sb's / sth's stablemate
• ideal mechanical advantage
• pilot light
• inclusiveness
• overprint
• problemed
• inch by inch
• be glad of
• Papanicolaou staining
• form factor
• fine lady
• Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent
• operating
• linear coding
• phenocoll hydrochloride
• wrong-slotted;-slotting
• computer conference
• leaver
• poly-A polymerase
• a drop in the bucket/ocean
• she-woman
• pulverulent
• androspores
• descendibility
• book bags
• eyass
• Talmudical
• apostasies
• cholesterols
• bus shelter
• boorishnesses
• graphitisations
• victimizations
• bargemasters
• myelopoiesis
• goods
• make place for
• picramic acid
• ti-ti
• pfu
• secularize
• a square deal
• disencumberment
• dog-paddled
• Huysmans, Joris Karl
• horrendous
• sea kings
• quadragesimas
• come down (to sb)
• globosity
• biguanide
• sod off
• low point
• coherent light communications
• general court-martial
• bench-made
• take ... life
• envier
• prodigal son
• grass carp
• think ... through
• dumb as an a fish
• Eijkman's test
• in trust
• cistron
• how was I to know? / how did I know?
• indurates
• blaes
• rightishness
• physiotherapies
• arbitrarily
• immunocytes
• Gordian
• yokest
• misjudgers
• short-nosed cattle louse
• cup shakes
• Fermi's golden rule
• parish lantern
• kneepiece
• impishness
• incremental
• terminal network
• chondroclasts
• holist
• tra-la-la
• sounding sand
• compoted
• praise to the skies
• outflow
• barbitals
• epichlorohydrins
• Tenasserim
• assertor