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Discover LudwigThe phrase "put a lock on" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is an idiomatic phrase which means to secure something with a lock. Example sentence: I'm worried that my bike will get stolen, so I'm going to put a lock on it.
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"But if you are going to put a lock on your door, the best one to put on is a five-lever mortise lock.
Put a lock on your bag so no one can steal your stuff.
"There are 20,000 people in Baikalsk dependent on the plant, and no one else in the region is producing cellulose". Miss Zaikova added: "No one will dare put a lock on our gates.
Find out whether it's okay to put a lock on the door if it doesn't already have one.
In Muammar Gaddafi's Libya, laws against private property meant that you couldn't put a lock on your door, so when the Sattoufs went out together one day, another family moved in to their house.
You take my taxes and build schools then put a lock on their doors.
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And who the heck puts a lock on it?
Many organizations protect their networks with firewalls that restrict access to particular resources, a step akin to putting a lock on a door.
Clearly, planning for trouble reduces its incidence, just as putting a lock on a door cuts down on burglaries, even though it does not eliminate them entirely.
His first law: if someone puts a lock on something and won't give you a key, it won't be for your benefit.
Your computer's operating system may have some useful tools for putting a lock on external drives, like the Bitlocker to Go feature of Windows 7 or the Mac OS X Disk Utility program.
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