Idiom
put the cork back in the bottle
Meaning
To revert a situation.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The argument started, and now we cannot put the cork back in the bottle.”
“Once the secret was leaked to the press, the company realized they could not put the cork back in the bottle.”
“The political reforms triggered a wave of public unrest that the government found impossible to contain, as if they could no longer put the cork back in the bottle.”
Examples
simple
“The argument started, and now we cannot put the cork back in the bottle.”
contextual
“Once the secret was leaked to the press, the company realized they could not put the cork back in the bottle.”
complex
“The political reforms triggered a wave of public unrest that the government found impossible to contain, as if they could no longer put the cork back in the bottle.”
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