keep in check

I do not see that they are being kept in check at all.

It was to show you to keep each other in check.

Even so, she kept her weight in check until four years ago.

But all we could do by then was to try to keep the fire in check until they got here.

I had to keep him in check all the time.

So far, we've been able to keep him in check.

But he'd keep himself in check if it killed him.

If not kept in check, it can take over your life.

Exercise can help keep a nation's major economic problems in check.

Only pressure from the rest of us has kept her in check.