The word 'brakes' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a device for slowing or stopping the motion of a vehicle or machine. Example: The car's brakes screeched loudly as the driver slammed on them to avoid hitting the deer in the road.
For me, being an actor was synonymous with wandering round with a gin and tonic and plotting how to murder your wife by cutting the brakes on her car, having offered to fix them ("You fools, anyone could have told you I wasn't a qualified mechanic").
They started the game, though, with the brakes well and truly off.
Now the brakes are on, and the Houston area must comply with national clean air standards by 2007 or lose about $2bn in federal grants.
But his crucial role was that, when the civil rights movement needed it, he was brave enough to kick off the brakes and set change rolling.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.38am GMT10 38 3rd over: Australia 35-0 (White 25, Finch 10) Broad puts the brakes on, with four good deliveries that bring just two singles, but then one is too full and powered down the ground for four, and one is too wide and short, and hooked through square leg for another.
So while this certainly is an austere budget – and very much so for certain sections of the population in broader economic terms it is not the massive slamming on the brakes that it could have been.
Some republicans complain that the DUP is putting the brakes on devolution's progress and deserves to be punished.
Berlin has become the first city in Germany in which rent-control legislation has come into force in a bid to put the brakes on some of the fastest rising rents in Europe.
The road appears to slope downwards and drivers assume that their cars will go faster, but if they apply the brakes they are likely to grind to a complete halt.
If you've got rim brakes give the wheels an occasional wipe to help your stopping power.
Few would question Clegg's desire to be in government more often, but will his explicit strategy of being the official party of coalition and acting as brakes on the other parties achieve that?
