Usually means: Control or limit something effectively.
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  1. put a lid on: Merriam-Webster
  2. put a lid on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. put a lid on: Wiktionary
  4. put a lid on: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put a lid on: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put a lid on: Medical dictionary

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  1. put a lid on: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (put a lid on)

verb:  (informal, idiomatic) To get under control, to prevent (something) from increasing or becoming more of a problem.

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