in check
Meaning
in check
Under restraint or control.
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Examples
It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.
Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check.
We have allowed alarmist and racist attitudes to take us hostage, and if these impulses are not kept in check they will behead us all.