pull out all stops
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Definitions
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stopped or stopt; stop·ping.
- : to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- : to cause to cease; put an end to:to stop noise in the street.
- : to interrupt, arrest, or check: Stop your work just a minute.
- : to cut off, intercept, or withhold: to stop supplies.
- : to restrain, hinder, or prevent: I couldn't stop him from going.
- : to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a car.
- : to block, obstruct, or close: He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch.
- : to fill the hole or holes in.
- : to close with a cork, plug, bung, or the like.
- : to close the external orifice of.
- : Sports. to check; parry; ward off.to defeat: The Browns stopped the Colts.Boxing.to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout: Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round.
- : Banking. to notify a bank to refuse payment of upon presentation.
Phrases
- stop at nothing
- stop by
- stop cold
- stop in
- stop off
- stop payment
- stop short
- stop someone's clock
- stop the clock
- stop up
- buck stops here
- pull out all the stops
- put an end (a stop) to
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Now I have a plausible explanation for how I feel, putting a stop to some of the second-guessing going on in my head.
It seems like he’s going to continue to do this until someone puts a stop to it.
That promise was enough to quell a few lawsuits filed by California groups against the federal government for failing to put a stop to the sewage-filled stormwater rolling from Mexico’s hills.
The agency issued a stop sale, use or removal order, which is supposed to prevent the company from selling its product.
The chair of the Uptown Community Parking District board proposed using the funds for cleaning bus stops, but the city said no.
But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.
That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.
Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
The men were accused of reneging on pledges to stop working for the Iraqi government.
Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?
"But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.
At twelve, or fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty it was decided that they should stop learning.
He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatever to stop the thief.
The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.