hold sb/sth at bay

hold sb/sth at bay不使迫近;使走投无路：In order not to be hurt by the wolves，the hunter held them at bay with a big stick.为了不被群狼所伤害，那猎人用一根大棒阻止它们迫近。

• public lands
• carbodihydrazide
• Big Ben
• broach spire
• light trap
• special characters
• leafy liverwort
• cutoff low
• Austiner
• pessimists
• E by S
• fall in love with
• carbon tissue
• not ring true
• OSD
• toggle harpoon
• bad faith
• turnback
• fall off
• summings
• ballotage
• apologies
• schlernwind
• parsnip
• switching
• simulator sickness
• COHA
• drag
• tread on air
• jiglike
• deschool
• mutilates
• dairywomen
• pipe fittings
• dispensers
• nannofossils
• Bass.
• silence cloth
• letter-paper
• swank
• keyboard shortcuts
• delayed repeater satellite
• shin/shinny up/down sth
• euonymin
• ocherous
• nitrogen tetroxide
• travel(l)er's joy
• cicutoxin
• hurler
• cough out
• tread on sb’s corns
• brunette
• censorian
• glycophytes
• acute pericarditis
• weak sister
• colusite
• terrorful
• leap to conclusion
• in 10 days' / five years' / a few minutes' etc time
• calcium arsenite
• flying bomb
• as fussy as a hen with one chick
• kirghizias
• neurotrauma
• n-octadecanoic acid
• Peale, Charles Willson
• milites gloriosi
• deracination
• pre-Islamic
• administrative assistant
• delimitate
• exhibition match
• doorknock
• polar maritime air
• pharmacognosist
• Taino
• operability
• extemporising
• E.S.E
• logicizes
• consignees
• lithographic
• on-board memory
• sues
• pressure of events
• self-developments
• co-oped
• be / go on (the) record as saying (that)
• errability
• progressive overflow
• place kick
• card files
• air turbulence
• mot juste
• gland
• Tyne and Wear
• arrive in
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