under lock and key
Example Sentences
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The sorrows that trouble him he keeps under lock and key.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
He could provide an option on the flank, but Liverpool's wide areas appear to be under lock and key.
From BBC • Jun. 14, 2025
The driver was arrested and the van was towed away, put under lock and key at a local impound yard.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025
They still use equipment the Yankees donated in 2019 during MLB’s debut in Europe — baseball’s are in sparse supply in the U.K., so the Mets keep their gameday stockpile under lock and key.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2024
For it would be on this visit, his grandfather had said, that the books in his glass-fronted case, collected over a lifetime and preserved under lock and key, would be given to Ashoke.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
