Close the faucet a bit.

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mampwamp

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Close the faucet a bit.
The tap was running water, how to ask someone to close it a little bit to make water running become smaller.
 

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Here we would ask someone to turn the water down a little bit.
 

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In contrary, how to ask someone turn the water become bigger?
 

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Say you want to "increase the water flow" or "decrease the water flow" not make it "smaller" or "bigger."

I need more water. We need more water to be flowing. Open up the tap more.
 

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Is it correct to say "turn up/down the tap"?
 

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Usually I say "Dear God - you are wasting water all over the place!" or something like that and they get the message and decrease the flow.
 
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