Sentence examples for put a cork from inspiring English sources

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Put a cork in it!

This is a way of telling someone to be quiet.

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He asked delegates to put a cork in it.

And he wouldn't necessarily have to put a cork in it.

There are also some unconventional elements to the campaign like coasters made of cork that will proclaim "Put a cork in climate change".

And in West Des Moines, Iowa, Joni Ernst, the hog-castrating, gun-toting farm girl turned G.O.P. icon was declaring, "Well, Iowa, we did it!" To put a cork in things, when Fox switched back to its studio from the Ernst speech, it called the Massachusetts governor's race for Charlie Baker, the Republican candidate.

The commentariat's preferred solution: a Swiss Army knife speech that will patch the differences between liberal and centrist Democrats, slice the cost of his program and put a cork on the death panel talk and other rumor-mongering, along with 23 other things.

(Brokaw to old folks: Hey, "Greatest Generation," put a cork in it!).

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He stoppered the tears up, like putting a cork in a bottle.

That will ease pressure now, but in the long term it could be putting a cork in a volcano.

There are reasons to fear putting a cork in a market that is projected to grow 50percentt in the next two decades.

He learns to "stopper the tears up, like putting a cork in a bottle".In this section It's not about miracles or monsters Stout of heart Absent friends So long, angel Dark heart Bloody memories A dark and laughing ringmaster A short turn among Ophuls classics ReprintsMs O'Brien shows us what it is that "warps a child...that changes a child from being a child".

It was long after Helan går and its lyrical brethren first appeared, however, that snaps songs went from a being a bourgeois, academic diversion to a more popular drinking pastime— ironically, at a time when the Swedish government was putting a cork in alcohol sales.

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