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rein back on

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rein back on someone or something
to control or diminish the intensity of someone or something. The manager was urged to rein back on her assigning overtime. She reined back on expenses and demanded that others do likewise.
See also: back, rein


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The truth is that Chinese industry, and employment, are going to suffer in the looming global recession as China's customers in the west rein back on spending in a way that will soon become painfully obvious.
Estate agents are feeling the brunt of a slump in the housing market as banks knocked by the credit crunch rein back on mortgage lending, hitting property transactions.
Byline: Sue Carroll WHILE the SAS trains huge German Shepherds to patrol in Afghanistan and scare the living daylights out of the Taliban, police here have been told to rein back on dogs in arrests and raids.
 
 
 
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