put the genie back in the bottle (English, verb)
expansion: put the genie back in the bottle (third-person singular simple present puts the genie back in the bottle, present participle putting the genie back in the bottle, simple past and past participle put the genie back in the bottle)
Senses:
glosses: To revert a situation; to put things back as they were before something (usually an unwelcome thing) became a reality.
tags: idiomatic
raw_tags: in the negative
Forms:
form: puts the genie back in the bottle
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: putting the genie back in the bottle
tags: participle
present
form: put the genie back in the bottle
tags: participle
past
form: put the genie back in the bottle
tags: past