put the cork back in the bottle

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put the cork back in the bottle (third-person singular simple present puts the cork back in the bottle, present participle putting the cork back in the bottle, simple past and past participle put the cork back in the bottle)

  1. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To revert a situation.

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