| 词组 | kibosh |
| 释义 | kibosh Kibosh is one of those words whose origins have never been definitely determined. It has been suggested that Yiddish or Irish Gaelic could have been the source, but these ideas remain no more than suggestions. The word, in a variant spelling, is first attested in 1836: • ("Hooroar," ejaculates a pot-boy in parenthesis, "put the kye-bosk [sic] on her, Mary!") —Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz Dickens preferred the y spelling and it is still used, although less frequently than the i spelling. Additionally, almost all the evidence in the Merriam-Webster files for the spelling kybosh is British: • Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Gob, that puts the bloody kybosh on it if old sloppy eyes is mucking up the show —James Joyce, Ulysses, 1914 • "He has properly put the kybosh on the trysting place of Uncle Percy and his nautical pal." —P. G. Wodehouse, Joy in the Morning, 1946 • In New York, though, it's the soot puts the kybosh on horticulture —Caterine Milinaire, Punch, 5 May 1976 Kibosh appears to be mainly an American spelling: • "... one of the best ways it can put the kibosh on cranks is to apply this social boycott business to folks " —Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, 1922 • ... finally shows up with a woman whom he had decided to bring home with him. Ma Stroup puts the kibosh on that —Erskine Caldwell, N. Y. Herald Tribune Book Rev., 25 Apr. 1943 • She was all for turning them in to the authorities and you put the kibosh on that —Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill, 1951 • ... the directive puts the kibosh on one of the few potentially valuable efforts that the United States has been making —Richard H. Rovere, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 1953 As in the foregoing examples, the noun kibosh is usually used in the phrase put the kibosh on. The construction is usually in the active voice but may at times be passive: • ... Pop's picture broke down the press and the kibosh has been put upon further pictorial presentation —Star of Hope, 25 July 1903 • The kibosh was put on the plan by one of the many former friends and present enemies of John L. Lewis —Life, 2 Feb. 1942 |
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