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Discover LudwigThe phrase "lock down on" is not standard English
You could use the phrase "lock down" on its own, as in "We've decided to put the city in a lock down". You could also use the phrase "crack down on" as in "The government is cracking down on drug dealers".
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They could just lock down on our shooters.
"They didn't have to double-team as much, so they could just lock down on our shooters".
The Connecticut woman wrote that ship employees "put a lock down on food & are constantly cleaning everything".
The comments made in the chat room, which put schools statewide in a state of alarm and "lock down" on Thursday, are considered to be a terrorist threat.
The media has in large part overlooked that since the start of last week's lock down on European airports due to the volcanic eruption, thousands of mostly Third World passengers have been kept within the narrow confinement of international sections of those airports.
It's going to try to lock down on 4km-wide 67P and ride it.
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They are just basically locked down on that floor".
"We think of protected areas as places that are locked down on a map.
Several schools in the vicinity were closed or locked down on Wednesday, with children kept inside classrooms for their safety.
It could have gone to Hamann, who locked down on Kaká and restored order to Liverpool's midfield.
The rest of the band — the guitarist Ben Carey, the bassist Bryce Soderberg and the drummer Rick Woolstenhulme Jr. — locks down on a solid but fairly anonymous competence throughout the album.
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