keep a lid on
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It's supposed to be a surprise, so try to keep a lid on it, will you?"
- "If he was listening to the England fans who gathered and sang non-stop late into the Moscow night behind the goal in the Spartak Stadium, it may have dawned on him that keeping a lid on expectations is likely to be a losing battle."