nipped in the bud

"I wanted to make sure it was nipped in the bud," she said.

She said she was aware of similar attacks by young people happening last summer in Braunstone Town and told police it needed to be "nipped in the bud".

Like virtually all science and health related work in the United States, this blossoming field is at risk of being nipped in the bud by cuts to federal funding, shifting funding priorities, and outright prohibitions.

"You've that guilt there and it lives with you every day, that if you had have opened your mouth and said something maybe it would have been nipped in the bud."

Mr Dooley said the practice of dynamic pricing “must be nipped in the bud before it becomes common practice”.