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call a halt



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Idioms and Phrases

Order something stopped, as in It was getting too dark to see the ball, so the referee called a halt to the match , or They'd played the march four times, so the conductor called a halt to the rehearsal . [Late 1800s]

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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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