kibosh

1. PHRASE If someone or something puts the kibosh on your plans or activities, they cause them to fail or prevent them from continuing. 使失敗; 阻止繼續(xù)[美國英語] [非正式]

Rattray, however, personally showed up at the meeting to try and put the kibosh on their plans. 然而，拉特雷親自出現在會議上，試圖挫敗他們的計劃。

...software that puts the kibosh on pop-up ads if a user doesn't want them. ...如果一位用戶不想要自動彈出的廣告出現就阻止它們的軟件。