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put the lid on something idiomUKold-fashioned If something that happens puts the lid on a plan, it causes the plan to fail: 使…失败,使(计划)落空 Well, James' resignation just about puts the lid on it/the project.詹姆斯的辞职几乎使它/该项目流产。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Causing something to end abandon abandonment all good things (must) come to an endidiom and have done with itidiom be over the humpidiom cure give over halt hang jack something in kill something stone-deadidiom lay lid lift snap stamp on something stamp something out stanch staunch stem
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