kibosh 的定义
Informal.
kibosh 近义词
stop
更多kibosh例句
- Apple keeps tight control over app downloads by prohibiting “side-loading,” or downloading apps directly from websites, and it also puts the kibosh on third-party app stores.
- Traditionally, the winners also give public talks in Boston the day after the awards ceremony, although the pandemic put a kibosh on that for the second year in a row.
- Studios put the kibosh on Lefcourt’s and Frankel’s original movie scripts in 1996 – Disney was even interested as one point – citing lack of commercial appeal.
- The Air Force has 62 of them, and had wanted to reduce that number to 45, but the most recent National Defense Authorization Act put the kibosh on that plan.
- The Swedish furniture retailer said on Monday that the 2021 catalog it published in October would be its last, putting the kibosh on a central marketing tool Ikea has used to great success for 70 years.
- But the Oscar put the kibosh on doubters; certainly nobody demanded a recount, save perhaps the four losers in his category.
- But in April, a few months after she turned 40, she seemingly put the kibosh on any talk of plastic surgery.
- The sum total of these moves seem aimed at putting the kibosh on diplomacy.
- If British regulators hadn't put the kibosh on the deal, their plan just might have worked.
- Nobody in the White House will put the kibosh on a deal he wants to make.
- Under any circumstances, said Shultz, this business seems to put the kibosh on our little plan.
- It ought to be easy enough for the four of us to figure out some way to put the kibosh on him.
- By steady steps our hero rose, to heights of usefulness and fame; he put the kibosh on his foes, and held the ace in every game.
- Kibosh thought awhile, and then, with his gentle smile, he again removed his chickle and placed it on the window-sill.
- "Chickle is not liquid refreshment," said Kibosh, mildly; and he held out the box to his tall guest.