24 December 2016
kybosh or kibosh
[kahy-bosh, ki-bosh]
noun
1. a variant spelling of kibosh
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Examples from the Web for kybosh
Contemporary Examples
For all intents and purposes Australia now has two federal governments. Government number one appears to front the people, attend official functions, promise things then backtrack. Government number two seems to call the shots and kybosh the other’s policy.Government number two seems to call the shots and kybosh the other’s policy.
Comment: Malcolm Turnbull buckles on effective climate action
Sydney Morning Herald
12 December 2016
http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/comment-malcolm-turnbull-buckles-on-effective-climate-action/ar-AAlqAh3
This definitely puts the kybosh on the make-up rumors, as there is no way Harry could marry a movie star.
Cressida Bonas Cast In New Weinstein Movie
Tom Sykes
June 10, 2014
Historical Examples
That put the kybosh on one bit, but it didn’t ‘urt the general scheme not a bit.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
H. G. Wells
kybosh ; some sort of difficulty or ‘fix’:—’He put the kybosh on him: he defeated him.’
English As We Speak It in Ireland
P. W. Joyce
There’ll be a dickens of a kybosh if they find we’ve broken parole, and I don’t want you hauled into the beastly thing.
The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel
Mary E. Hanshew
Anagram
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Today’s quote
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
– Charles Darwin
On this day
24 December 1865 – Ku Klux Klan formed by a group of confederate veterans who are opposed to civil rights for African-Americans.
24 December 1979 – The Soviet Army, comprised of 100,000 troops, invades Afghanistan in response to Afghan insurgents (armed by the United States) who had been attacking Soviet troops. The occupation lasts for 10 years and results in the deaths of between 600,000 and 2,000,000 Afghan civilians, as well as 6,000,000 refugees who fled to Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets withdrew in 1989. The cost of the Afghan occupation is a significant factor that led to the economic collapse of the Soviet Union. During the Soviet occupation, the United States funded Afghan resistance in the form of the Mujahideen and other militant Islamic groups, out of whom emerged Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The real victims in this war were the Afghan people, who continue to suffer and to comprise a significant portion of global refugee numbers because of the involvement of the USSR and the USA during this period.