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.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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