hold/keep sb/sth at bay

hold/keep sb/sth at ˈbayto prevent an enemy from coming close or a problem from having a bad effect不让（敌人）接近；防止（问题）恶化ward offI'm trying to keep my creditors at bay.我在竭力避开债主。Charlotte bit her lip to hold the tears at bay.夏洛特咬住嘴唇不让眼泪流出来。

• plane-dendritic crystal
• health physics
• Napierian
• united kingdom of great britain and northern irelands
• keep in with sb
• apogamous
• cover ... up
• postmillennially
• autotox(a)emia
• moistener
• psychomotor epilepsy
• choreographist
• campus plaza
• seat pack
• quasi-stellar object
• enolizations
• administered price
• cloudwards
• dude rancher
• Little Russian
• the Great Lake
• fishing space
• secko
• twigloos
• wait for
• make-work
• initial nuclear radiation
• fundamental frequencies
• gasless
• avian
• bumbledoms
• be through with
• ammonia print
• rucksacked
• gharials
• meadowy
• Entodontaceae
• hangout
• supercontracted
• winged horse
• it is only a matter of time
• set out on sth
• soggies
• harebrainedly
• arsenic sulfide
• derepresss
• reservable
• outbalancing
• shopwalk
• saddling
• bankable asset
• buffy coats
• dust devil
• experiencing
• cycle annealing
• have the wall of someone
• microbiology
• daffodillies
• put/stick the boot in
• amourette
• have a memory like a sieve
• all-red
• acid calcium phosphate
• - enchyma
• frameable
• ABRV
• your heart / thoughts go out to sb
• subtractest
• disulfirams
• nematicide
• established religion
• whicker
• ruttish
• incisors
• block off
• magnificats
• episcopized
• pedigree analysis
• take it away
• choragus
• push-pull electret transducer
• SUP CT
• infrared radiation
• gopher-hole blasting
• wakeful
• unbellar
• YA
• Donets
• Constantine XI Palaeologus
• spor-
• Cory
• every cloud has a silver lining
• Fla.G
• old cock
• geomorphology
• protistologists
• ostentatiousnesses
• EOG
• plant division
• be besieged with letters / demands / requests etc