to shut sth up in
21shut somebody in (something) — ˌshut sb/yourself ˈin (sth) derived to put sb in a room and keep them there; to go to a room and stay there • She shut the dog in the shed while she prepared the barbecue. Main entry: ↑shutderived …
22shut yourself in (something) — ˌshut sb/yourself ˈin (sth) derived to put sb in a room and keep them there; to go to a room and stay there • She shut the dog in the shed while she prepared the barbecue. Main entry: ↑shutderived …
23shut yourself off (from something) — ˌshut yourself ˈoff (from sth) derived to avoid seeing people or having contact with anyone • Martin shut himself off from the world to write his book. Main entry: ↑shutderived …
24shut somebody away — ˌshut sb/sthaˈway derived to put sb/sth in a place where other people cannot see or find them Main entry: ↑shutderived …
25shut something away — ˌshut sb/sthaˈway derived to put sb/sth in a place where other people cannot see or find them Main entry: ↑shutderived …
26shut — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} verb Shut is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑door, ↑eye, ↑factory, ↑gate, ↑mouth, ↑shop Shut is used with these nouns as the object: ↑blind, ↑boot, ↑box, ↑briefcase, ↑ …
27shut the door on something — close/shut the ˈdoor on sth idiom to make it unlikely that sth will happen • She was careful not to close the door on the possibility of further talks. Main entry: ↑dooridiom …
28ˌshut sb/sth ˈin — phrasal verb to put a person or animal in a place that they cannot leave …
29with your eyes shut — with your eyes shut/closed/ phrase used for saying that it is easy to do something I could do his job with my eyes shut. Thesaurus: easy to do and to be easysynonym Main entry: eye * * * with your eyes shut …
30put up or shut up — informal justify oneself or remain silent they called for the alderman to either put up or shut up * * * ˌput up or ˈshut up idiom (especially BrE) used to tell sb to stop just talking about sth and actually do it, show it, etc. Main entry:… …