in the bud

"I wanted to make sure it was nipped in the bud," she said.

It is understood consideration was given to the prospect of making an unlikely move for Eddie Howe, but Newcastle's qualification for the Champions League would, you imagine, nip that in the bud.

She said she was aware of similar attacks by young people happening last summer in Braunstone Town and told police it needed to be "nipped in the bud".

Like virtually all science and health related work in the United States, this blossoming field is at risk of being nipped in the bud by cuts to federal funding, shifting funding priorities, and outright prohibitions.

The plan is to nip these in the bud.