Cut off
Cut off verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Keep in
Keep in verb - Cause to stay indoors.
Both terms in one sentence
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Adam tends to be very drawn to Echo's hair, having once asked her if he could cut off a lock to keep in his pocket.
Source: Series / Mr. Young - At the end of X3: Albion Prelude, the entire jumpgate network is shut down, leaving individual star systems completely cut off from each other, and resulting in dozens upon dozens of new Lost Colonies (though they keep in touch, slowly, via near-lightspeed messenger drones).
Source: Lost Colony
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