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Keep The Pot Boiling 1100 Words You Need Week 13

Keep The Pot Boiling 1100 Words

Keep The Pot Boiling 1100 Words

to keep people interested in something, e.g. a plan or idea, engage someone’s interest or attention, to interest someone, to make sure that someone remains interested and involved in something:

The diplomat was invited to the negotiating table just so that the government keeps the pot boiling while it prepares for military intervention.

The health minister kept on calming the local population about the virus to keep the pot boiling, in reality they knew that it already spread way beyond their control.

Antonyms: to bore, bore to death, bore to tears, bore stiff, turn off, tire, bore rigid

French: susciter l’intérêt de quelqu’un

Farsi: علاقه شخصی را درگیر کردن


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