Keep
Keep verb - To mark with an appropriate practice, rite, or ceremony.
Throw up
Throw up verb - To discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth.
Both terms in one sentence
- Don't force yourself to vomit or you might throw up a tiny man that your mother falls in love with and end up falling out with her after she makes you keep vomiting just so she can keep seeing him.
Source: Series / Picnic Face -
Veronica also uses this trope to her own benefit by pretending to throw up to keep a possible rapist at a distance.
Source: Series / Veronica Mars -
Lafayette is only just in time to keep her from swallowing several bottles of pills, and he has to force her to spit them back out (and may have made her take some ipecac to get her to throw up any that she did swallow).
Source: Series / True Blood
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