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lock on (to someone or something)
to fasten or grab onto someone or something. She locked onto the child and wouldn't leave his side for an instant. I saw the thing 1wanted and locked on.
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It is, I suppose, Boulter's not even excepted, the busiest lock on the river.
How is it that you let Tait's people put us off with a defective lock on the cabin door?
This the white-haired man told me was to be my apartment; and the inner door, which "for fear of accidents," he said, he would lock on the other side, was my limit inward.
 
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