put a plug in

And we can't seem to put a plug in the leak.

I ran outside to try and persuade her to put a plug in it.

"Ker put a plug in them so they'd shoot out of the back at the user.

When it boils too hard, if you put a plug in the spout, what would happen?"

Put a plug in it, Ollie.

Glynn also is trying to put a plug in the drug trade and urges McManus to shut down the Italian inmates who control it the most.

Without hesitation Rojer took it, and knew that the chief had liked him for himself, and because he'd put a plug in that motor mouth of an ensign.

Lord Karl put a plug in his left nostril and tuned its direction and amplification to pick up the wonderful aroma a Sweet clover in Pleasant Meadows.

Sunken into the floor was a tile-lined bath tub; Darian had just turned a spigot and put a plug in a hole in the bottom of it, and water poured in.

Drivers can freely use the interstate highway system and homeowners can obtain electricity simply by putting a plug in an outlet, but equal access to all does not yet exist in the nation's telephone system.

Those industries are considered the best hope for putting a plug in rising unemployment, which is a source of continuing discomfort for politicians, who consider it a ticking time bomb that could blast them out of office.

I like the inclusion of "Lucky Jim" and "Catch 22" and I'd like to put a plug in for Fernando Pessoa's "The Book of Disquiet", you wont be disappointed.

Knowing the demographics and power structure of Oz, Glynn also secretly assigns two African American Narcotics Detectives from the Police Department on two different occasions to put a plug in the drug traffic.

Markstrom, according to the file, is a petty African American drug dealer that is supposedly related to Glynn, but in actuality he is an undercover narcotics detective looking to put a plug in the drug trade.

"You can think of these interfaces as connectors, as a socket in a wall, like the ones you put a plug in for electricity," Dr. James Gosling, a vice president of Sun Microsystems Inc., explained to the judge last week.