See put the kibosh on on Wiktionary
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"text": "Someone really needs to go put the kibosh on that noisy party.",
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"text": "(\"Hoo-roa,\" ejaculates a pot-boy in a parenthesis, \"put the kye-bosh on her, Mary.\")",
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"ref": "1914, Mark Sheridan (lyrics and music), “Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser”:",
"text": "For Belgium put the kibosh on the Kaiser; / Europe took the stick and made him sore; / On his throne it hurts to sit, / And when John Bull starts to hit, / He will never sit upon it any more.",
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"ref": "2023 September 8, Carl Wilson, “The Olivia Rodrigo–Taylor Swift \"Beef\" Is Really About Something Deeper”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-09-09:",
"text": "I'm not sure how it became a trope to call second albums \"sophomore.\" But if Olivia Rodrigo's debut, Sour, hadn't become one of the biggest releases of 2021, winning her a Grammy for best new artist and putting the kibosh on her post–high school plans, the 20-year-old might be a literal sophomore now.",
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