keep to sth
— phrasal verb with keep uk/kiːp/us/kiːp/verb kept, kept
(PLAN)
B2 to do what you have promised or planned to do:
I think we should keep to our original plan.
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Making & breaking promises & commitments
- betray
- broken
- commit
- cross my heart (and hope to die) idiom
- deliver
- fink
- fink out
- guarantee
- New Year's resolution
- oath
- promise sb the earth/moon idiom
- promises, promises! idiom
- redeem
- resolution
- scout
- sworn
- vouch
- warrant
- warranty
- welsh
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(SUBJECT)
B2 If you keep to a particular subject, you only talk about that subject:
For heaven's sake let's keep to the point or we'll never reach any decisions.
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Limiting and restricting
- box sb in
- chain
- circumscribe
- clamp down on sth
- clampdown
- curb
- curtail
- damage limitation
- debilitate
- delimit
- hamstring
- hedge
- infringe
- localize
- muzzle
- non-proliferation
- qualification
- ration
- rationing
- stabilizer
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