put on the handbrake BrE
put on the emergency brake AmE

I pulled into one of them, put on the handbrake and when the boys were out, locked the doors.

And they were so carried away, they forgot to put on the handbrake.

He put on the handbrake and switched off, turning in his seat to face Tarrant.

Hathall's window was dark, but as Wexford put on the handbrake and switched off the ignition, the bay window suddenly became a brilliant yellow cube.

In other words, European civilization existed before there were additives, so I am not worried about what will happen to society if we put on the handbrake slightly, rather the opposite!

"They then managed to get it going, but the water was coming back in and they couldn't get away in time so they position the car with its boot to the wave and put on the handbrake.

Then Jerry slowly turned into his sloping driveway, which ran alongside the wrought-iron fence of Sherry Cantor's garden next door, nosed the car right up to the low wall at the top of the gradient, and put on the handbrake.

As you stop, he reaches over and puts on the emergency brake.

He shifted into neutral, put on the emergency brake, and got out of the car.

The engineer spotted him and put on the emergency brake, but not in time.

Expertly turned the wheels inward, put on the emergency brake.

The engineer put on the emergency brakes and radioed the railroad's command center.

He turned the steering wheel to the right, put on the emergency brake and put the transmission in drive.

He carefully shifted to neutral and put on the emergency brake, and then turned to Parker.

He put on the emergency brake, got out of the BMW, and walked to the center of the road in order to see what the problem was.

The only feasible explanation was that I hadn't put on the emergency brake, but I know I did."

The way it works in Cito Gaston's career, opportunity doesn't just knock, it drives up to the curb and puts on the emergency brake.

Parliament was putting on the emergency brake when it set upper and lower percentage criteria for the proportion of combined transport - road and rail - in its decisions on the trans-European Networks.