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Which idioms have the same meaning as "keep something at bay" and "keep/hold something in check"?

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“Keep a lid on something.” “Hold one’s finger in the dike” (after the story of a little Dutch boy who saved his town from flooding by using his finger to plug a leak in a dike).

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