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lid

noun as in top covering

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However, some have used Aberdeen's collapse last term as a reason to put a lid on the positivity bubbling away at Tynecastle.

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Track 80, “Room Service Ooh,” is exactly what it sounds like, with a clattering lid being lifted off a plate followed by Lindhome’s exclamation at what’s underneath.

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies reckons that we'd have to work until 74 to keep a lid on state pension spending.

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This efficiency made professional sense, though it had the potential to put a lid on what is usually the most interesting, unruly, moving, unpredictable part of the show.

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Claire Bracey, interim chief executive of Become, says the report "is once again lifting the lid on the extortionate profits that are being made from providing homes for our most vulnerable children".

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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