keep down

keep down
{v.} Keep from progressing or growing; keep within limits; control. * /The children could not keep their voices down./ * /We hoe the garden to keep down the weeds./ * /You can't keep a good man down./ Compare: GET AHEAD.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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