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.
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.
American idioms English vocabulary. Английский словарь американских идиом. 2012