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Idioms and Phrases
Cornered, in distress, as in Angry bystanders chased the thief into an alley and held him at bay until the police arrived . This idiom originally came from hunting, where it describes an animal that has been driven back and now faces pursuing hounds. Its use for other situations dates from the late 1500s.Example Sentences
Mercedes' George Russell benefited from one of three virtual safety-car periods to vault ahead of Verstappen and take the final podium place, similarly keeping the Dutchman at bay over the closing laps.
Velarde added that he believed petrol leaking from the plane had kept the predators at bay.
But Trump is firing all the cops who keep fraudsters at bay.
We need to monitor and study it 鈥 to understand it 鈥 if we want to keep it at bay.
Chris now eats four peanuts every morning with his breakfast granola to keep his allergy at bay 鈥 as recommended by his doctors.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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