put kibosh on

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• Apple keeps tight control over app downloads by prohibiting “side-loading,” or downloading apps directly from websites, and it also puts the kibosh on third-party app stores.

• Traditionally, the winners also give public talks in Boston the day after the awards ceremony, although the pandemic put a kibosh on that for the second year in a row.

• Studios put the kibosh on Lefcourt’s and Frankel’s original movie scripts in 1996 – Disney was even interested as one point – citing lack of commercial appeal.

• The Air Force has 62 of them, and had wanted to reduce that number to 45, but the most recent National Defense Authorization Act put the kibosh on that plan.

• The Swedish furniture retailer said on Monday that the 2021 catalog it published in October would be its last, putting the kibosh on a central marketing tool Ikea has used to great success for 70 years.

• But the Oscar put the kibosh on doubters; certainly nobody demanded a recount, save perhaps the four losers in his category.

• But in April, a few months after she turned 40, she seemingly put the kibosh on any talk of plastic surgery.

• The sum total of these moves seem aimed at putting the kibosh on diplomacy.

• If British regulators hadn't put the kibosh on the deal, their plan just might have worked.

• Nobody in the White House will put the kibosh on a deal he wants to make.

• Under any circumstances, said Shultz, this business seems to put the kibosh on our little plan.

• It ought to be easy enough for the four of us to figure out some way to put the kibosh on him.

• By steady steps our hero rose, to heights of usefulness and fame; he put the kibosh on his foes, and held the ace in every game.