stop the rot
to take action against something bad, before it spreads and becomes worse:
We must try to stop the rot before the whole school is corrupted.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Acting and acts
- (your) every move idiom
- -ation
- act/do sth on your own responsibility idiom
- action
- activity
- agency
- ant
- be up to sth idiom
- feel
- gambit
- get around to sth
- give yourself over/up to sth
- go about sth
- go about your business idiom
- go through with sth
- hand
- manoeuvre
- manoeuvring
- money
- up to
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