来自俚语put the kibosh on,阻止,挫败。词源不详,可能来自爱尔兰语caip bhais,死刑帽,caip,帽子,词源同cap,bhais,死亡。据说当法官宣判死刑的时候所戴。
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The rain certainly put the kibosh on our plans for a picnic .
这场雨无疑彻底打破了我们的野餐计划。
Israel could seek to kibosh the arrangement , for instance by continuing to refuse to let the palestinians receive customs revenue that it previously agreed to pass on .
以色列可以伺机破坏有关安排,例如,它可以不履行先前的承诺,继续拒绝将关税收入交予巴勒斯坦。
Unfortunately for montillano , his would-be colleagues put the kibosh on his plans , arresting him when he showed up to take the entrance exam .
不幸的是,他未来可能的同事们毁了他的计划,在他参加警官应试的现场逮捕了他。
After an hour of this , the exasperated doctor inquired the lawyer , " what do you do to kibosh folk from asking you because lawful advice when you 're out of the office ? "
The rn hasn 't had ' real ' mascots for thirty years when rabies regulations put the kibosh on cats , dogs , rabbits , bears and other creatures ( hms lancaster did , however , have sunny the parrot , but she 's now retired ) .
Entering an age of limitations is forcing big powers to work together differently and has put the kibosh on the momentary and misguided unilateralism of the bush era in the united states .
A large shift to electric cars would put the kibosh on the biofuel market as currently conceived by most of its supporters ; but it would not necessarily kill the principle of using plants to convert sunlight into car-power .