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put the kibosh on



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Restrain or check something, as in The rain put the kibosh on our beach party , or The boss put the kibosh on the whole project . The word kibosh has been used in English since the first half of the 1800s and its origin is unknown.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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