单词 | put paid to something |
释义 | put paid to something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishput paid to somethingput paid to somethingBritish English to stop something from happening or spoil plans for something Bad exam results put paid to his hopes of a university place. → payExamples from the Corpusput paid to something• This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.• Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.• It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.• Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.• People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.• But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.• But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy.put paid to somethingput paid to somethingBritish EnglishDESTROY to spoil and end your hopes or plans completely A car accident put paid to his chances of taking part in the race. → putExamples from the Corpusput paid to something• This was the cause of his deafness, which put paid to a planned career in the army and in politics.• Lefkowitz, a classicist and humanities professor at Wellesley College, puts paid to Afrocentric myth-making.• It rather put paid to any idea she'd had of motoring around and discovering more of the area though.• Yet an inflamed shin almost put paid to Sampras in the first week.• People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time.• But Travis McKenna had put paid to that by being particularly vigilant.• But the glint of mockery in his dark eyes put paid to that fantasy. |
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