I used to sit, think, think, thinking, till I felt as lonesome as a kitten in a wash–house copper with the lid on. Charles Dickens
For fourteen years, the secularists had worked hard to keep the lid on the Ayodhya evidence and they didn't want some puny radar scanner or muddy-handed archaeologist to bring the facts to light and thereby expose their mendaciousness. Koenraad Elst
It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading. Merle Haggard
There's no doubt that we have other problems with Iran. But personally, I'd rather deal with the other problems having put that lid on their nuclear program than still to be facing that. Hillary Clinton
My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations. Hillary Clinton
To get the lid on the nose. Dutch Proverb