head（或cut）someone/thing off at the pass

head（或cut）someone/thing off at the pass forestall someone or something 预防, 预先阻止（或妨碍）： he came up with this story at the last minute, just to cut me off at the pass. 在最后关头他才提出这种说法, 无非是想对我来个先发制人。

• ptomaines
• advocacy
• emit
• jury process
• tin openers
• mediatrix
• soldering iron
• scrape sth↔together/up
• wildcatted
• antiferromagnets
• liegemen
• piston valve
• discourse on / upon sth
• Amiidae
• pattings
• pander to
• beverage
• grounding outlet
• gratifier
• admit of
• electrooptical
• eddy resistance
• pleopod
• spig
• hyperbolae
• paralyse
• yarg
• sandfly fever
• habitan
• conveyable
• FK5
• plate-grid capacitance
• barracks lawyer
• Choctaw
• pneumatizes
• reason
• whizzed
• abbreviate
• BSEE
• rhizobial
• unpracticalness
• let someone in on/into
• Midwestern
• check bouncer
• notches
• get one's finger out
• Floridian
• the headlines
• be patient with
• undelete
• clindamycins
• naturalising
• industrio-
• benzyloxy-
• pneu.
• windingness
• neurocirculatory
• face to face
• sopped
• blonde bombshell
• ministrative
• monosodium glutamate
• wireway
• blank sth↔out
• pornotopia
• azomycin
• warm someone's jacket
• mechanical mule
• Claude Lorrain
• succuss
• in a world of one's own
• glass eye
• Kereses
• flannelmouths
• panem et circenses!
• fickle
• beef
• nominated
• wireworker
• beadrolls
• off the peg
• in / into a (flat) spin
• run sb's life
• juliets
• tight fit
• dome stadium
• make the best of one’s opportunity
• drug fiend
• haw-haw
• divertor
• the fair
• inspection chamber
• bewilderings
• nef
• faradising
• up-yours
• debt swap
• adeles
• hearthstones
• seisms