put one's finger in the dyke

put one's finger in the dyke attempt to stem the advance of something undesirable 试图阻止。 [ORIGIN: from a story of a small Dutch boy who saved his community from flooding, by placing his finger in a hole in a dyke.]

• liquid measure
• all-possessed
• chinkapin
• prejudged
• etiolating
• burst with
• mechanical mixtures
• reasonlessly
• arched tympan
• chat ... up
• puzzle over
• ratchet effect
• major defect
• the little folk
• M.Pharm.
• alterne
• borsches
• uxoricides
• G.O.K.
• buryer
• expectoration
• hydroelectrically
• nephrostomies
• and Co
• on the stock exchange (或 Stock Exchange)
• content-addressable memory
• protosteles
• corers
• Aeschylus
• dyeweed
• wisewomen
• bear proportion to
• Christmastide / eveningtide / morningtide etc
• punishing
• potterer
• tongue worm
• go and jump in the lake
• argue ... out of
• telluric
• hatchet-faced
• ore cluster
• knuckle sandwiches
• culpas
• Grignard synthesis
• e.f.m.
• moiety
• territorials
• designated hitter
• Special Forces
• caraco-led
• pill
• character assassinations
• Mobile Genetic Elements
• 's Hertogenbosch
• nut butter
• hoarinesses
• digestiveness
• for starters
• Abelson
• (give sb) a fair hearing
• Redstone
• association constant
• terminal bars
• eloiner
• finicalnesses
• ganisters
• stamp mill
• chitted
• pituitary extract
• the general public
• absurdities
• Bacillaceae
• mandamuss
• deknight
• brussels laces
• oligemic
• rapturous
• short ton
• flattish
• butanethiol
• magnetic attractions
• shut sb ↔ down
• ad rem
• user identification
• neoarsphenamine
• Yeatsian
• saucerman
• brush fire
• scurrilities
• reverse harakiri
• inability
• thiolic
• more like…
• Bren (gun) carrier
• Como
• comprizal
• knock sb down with a feather
• HI test
• Lords of Council and Session
• juggles