What is the meaning of TO PUT-THE-KIBOSH-ON. Phrases containing TO PUT-THE-KIBOSH-ON
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Kibosh is slang for nonsense.Kibosh is British slang for an eighteen month prison sentence.Kibosh is British slang for eighteen pence.
To get out of a place, to leave. [He had to cut out.].
Put the tin hat on is British slang for to finish, to end, to put to a complete stop.
Put the kibosh on is slang for frustrate, ruin, prevent, jeopardise, or jinx.
Put out the lights and cry is American slang for liver and onions.
Put the nut on is British slang for to head−butt someone.
eighteen pence (i.e., one and six, 1/6, one shilling and sixpence), related to and perhaps derived from the mid-1900s meaning of kibosh for an eighteen month prison sentence. Cassells implies an interesting possible combination of the meanings kibosh (18 month sentence), kibosh (meaning ruin or destroy) - both probably derived from Yiddish (Jewish European/Hebrew dialect) words meaning suppress - with the linking of money and hitting something, as in 'a fourpenny one' (from rhyming slang fourpenny bit
To break, kill: e.g. "Went out with the air rifle and potted a few birds. "Used my sling on a few windows... managed to pot a few!!". Probably in relation to bagging game for the (cooking) 'pot'.
Vrb phrs. To put an end to (something). E.g."We all went home after their parents put the kibosh on the drinking."
Noun. To end, to terminate, to finish off. E.g."We were kiboshed as soon as we set off." See 'put the kibosh on'.
Put the boots to is American tramp slang for to have sexual intercourse
v put an end to: We were going to have a picnic in the park but the weather put paid to that.
Put on the block is New Zealand slang for to gang rape.
to frustrate plans - "My dad put the kibosh on my plans for Spring Break."
to frustrate plans - "My dad put the kibosh on my plans for Spring Break."
To put the kibosh on is slang for to terminate, to destroy or to ruin.
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v. t.
To bring to a position or place; to place; to lay; to set; figuratively, to cause to be or exist in a specified relation, condition, or the like; to bring to a stated mental or moral condition; as, to put one in fear; to put a theory in practice; to put an enemy to fight.
v. t.
To move in any direction; to impel; to thrust; to push; -- nearly obsolete, except with adverbs, as with by (to put by = to thrust aside; to divert); or with forth (to put forth = to thrust out).
n.
The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push; as, the put of a ball.
n.
A privilege which one party buys of another to "put" (deliver) to him a certain amount of stock, grain, etc., at a certain price and date.
prep.
As sign of the infinitive, to had originally the use of last defined, governing the infinitive as a verbal noun, and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no prepositional meaning, as where the infinitive is direct object or subject; thus, I love to learn, i.e., I love learning; to die for one's country is noble, i.e., the dying for one's country. Where the infinitive denotes the design or purpose, good usage formerly allowed the prefixing of for to the to; as, what went ye out for see? (Matt. xi. 8).
v. i.
To go or move; as, when the air first puts up.
v. t.
To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
v. i.
To play a card or a hand in the game called put.
v. t.
To place or put into a pit or hole.
prep.
An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.
v. t.
To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention; to offer; to state; to express; figuratively, to assume; to suppose; -- formerly sometimes followed by that introducing a proposition; as, to put a question; to put a case.
v. t.
To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
imp. & p. p.
of Put
prep.
Accompaniment; as, she sang to his guitar; they danced to the music of a piano.
v. t.
To put.
v. t.
To throw or cast with a pushing motion "overhand," the hand being raised from the shoulder; a practice in athletics; as, to put the shot or weight.
v. t.
To put out.
n.
A pit.
v. t.
To attach or attribute; to assign; as, to put a wrong construction on an act or expression.
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