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put the skids on



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Bring to a halt, as in The school committee put the skids on the idea of a dress code . The word skid here probably refers to a shoe or drag that applies pressure to the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from moving.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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