under lock and key
Example Sentences
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The sorrows that trouble him he keeps under lock and key.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Maybe we’ll find ourselves under lock and key across the street in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
From Salon • Nov. 7, 2025
Just days before the stone was to be released, a federal court judge ordered that the emerald remain under lock and key until the federal case with Brazil concludes.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2024
Participants would need to be kept under lock and key so their food intake could be tightly managed.
From BBC • Jul. 27, 2024
His uncle kept all food under lock and key.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
