nip in the bud
Example Sentences
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This is a rare emergent epidemic that we can still nip in the bud.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2023
That sets up the kind of clown-car spectacle that a Chief Justice Roberts—who would prefer to participate in this senate trial from behind a bulletproof screen—would perhaps be moved to nip in the bud.
From Slate • Jan. 15, 2020
Still, to nip in the bud any thought that Merritt might be mistaken for Richardson, "If he cut his hair, I would greatly appreciate it," the lanky Richardson said.
From Reuters • Jun. 27, 2012
The company wants to nip in the bud what it fears could be more regulatory oversight.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2011
The government was compelled to send under Colonel Wolseley an expeditionary force of Imperial troops and Canadian volunteers to nip in the bud the supposed attempt to establish French ascendancy on the Red River.
From The Fathers of Confederation A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by Colquhoun, A. H. U. (Arthur Hugh Urquhart)
