kybosh
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Putting a kybosh on their future equivalents, too.
From The Guardian • Oct. 1, 2016
Steven Fletcher appeared to kybosh his international career by text message in February when he refused a call-up to play for Scotland, after a prolonged brouhaha with manager Craig Levein.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2011
He was a handy-witted old Orahanna, that Windy, and you didn't put the kybosh on him easy.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace
Strangely enough, however, once he was actually demobilised he found himself in no hurry to lose the garb which showed that he, Mr. Phillybag, had helped, you know, to put the kybosh on the KAISER.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 by Various
There'll be a dickens of a kybosh if they find we've broken parole, and I don't want you hauled into the beastly thing.
From The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel by Hanshew, Mary E.
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