put the (tin) lid on sth/things

put the (tin) ˈlid on sth/things(BrE) (informal)to be the final act or event that spoils your plans or hopes对…是最后的一击；最后使计划（或希望）落空

• onomatology
• hurry on
• game-breaker
• monosyllabisms
• menopauses
• driving rain / snow
• adown
• taprooms
• squits
• take to the road
• layer-out
• lurch
• crumblingness
• tilt at windmills
• polytenes
• emitter-coupled logic
• defluvium
• loyalty oath
• chicken hawks
• laomedons
• daughterless
• tshes
• muse on / upon
• arkose
• tattily
• handednesses
• refrigerating
• cyclotron frequency
• sadist
• hybridiser
• kilovolts
• libretto
• ace in the hole
• wildcats
• attracter
• oxyntic cells
• osteolysis
• seatmate
• arrowwood
• talk in
• unilingualism
• acceptance rate
• thermoplastic
• alliterativeness
• heavy-water reactor
• end matters
• chemists
• take a peek at
• low-temperature thermometry
• peak width
• fratting
• belly up
• folketings
• cartwrights
• expose sb to
• performance art
• light waterline
• go round the sun to meet the moon
• looping
• stockholm pitch
• show contempt for
• dismissivenesses
• Bolingbroke, Henry St. John
• the purse strings
• bilboas
• anals
• colitises
• Stemonitis
• scombrids
• do sba good turn
• Hofmann exhaustive methylation reaction
• protoniums
• ANA
• dispersing
• innovative behaviour
• goof up
• ultrapurity
• intransitivize
• earring
• long-headed
• subversive
• subordinatings
• pythonesque
• manavelins
• programme unit
• antisocials
• grenadians
• lysoclines
• be on with
• enchanting
• water cycle
• transactional
• media centre
• double-domed
• aristotypes
• lesser yellowlegs
• Free reserves
• make domino
• tagboards
• astrology