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nip in the bud
Idioms and Phrases
Halt something at an early stage, or thoroughly check something. For example, By arresting all the leaders, they nipped the rebellion in the bud . This metaphoric expression, alluding to a spring frost that kills flower buds, was first recorded in a Beaumont and Fletcher play of 1606â1607.Example Sentences
This is a rare emergent epidemic that we can still nip in the bud.
The response of Karen Ward, a respected City economist who serves on the chancellor's council of advisers that the Bank of England "has to create a recession" partly to "nip in the bud" a spiral of wages going up and in turn pushing up prices, and then pushing up wages again.
In the past three decades, the Chinese Communist Party has spent immense sums on âstability maintenance,â a budget item for funding not only police and prisons but also a legion of âthought workersâ who blanket the country to nip in the bud any possible threat to CCP authority.
âWhen you donât punish these crimes â then you know gradually the severity of the offenses escalates or nip in the bud and thatâs why youâre seeing these truly horrifying events,â California Assembly Kevin Kiley told Los Angeles CBS 2.
Ms. Parrish said in her complaint to the N.L.R.B. that Apple had fired her to ânip in the budâ her organizing efforts.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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