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put the brakes on

To stop or to slow it down.
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"[T]he fight I saw that day made the others look like a young ladies' quadrille. . . . [Y]ou could no more separate them two than you could put the brakes on a blame earthquake."

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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put the brakes onTo cease to perform one's current activity or to decrease one's level of activity.
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