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单词 put paid to sth
释义
put paid to sth
phrase
If an unexpected event puts paid to someone's hopes, chances, or plans, it completely ends or destroys them. [mainly British]
...a series of airforce strikes that put paid to the General's hopes of fighting on.
Only six months ago I ran my own business. The recession put paid to that.
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