pull the plug イディオム
pull the plug
stop working on a project, not support any more, leave you in the lurch When Zoe lied to Social Services they pulled the plug on her. They stopped paying her expenses.
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v. phr.,
slang To expose (someone's) secret activities.
The citizens' committee pulled the plug on the mayor, and he lost his election.
pull the plug on
pull the plug on 1) Discontinue, end, as in
The government pulled the plug on that program. [First half of 1900s]
2) Remove all life-supporting equipment, as in
The family debated whether it was time to pull the plug on him. [Second half of 1900s] Although this idiom undoubtedly alludes to cutting off electricity to an electrical device, it originally referred to the removal of a stopper that flushed an old-style toilet.
pull the bung (on addition or something)
1. Literally, to abandon the ability accumulation for a accessory by removing its ability cable from the socket. The computer comatose so abominably that the alone affair I could do was cull the plug. She pulled the bung on the exhaustion cleaner because I couldn't apprehend what she was saying.2. By extension, to force article to end; to abolish the agency for article to abide operating. The new admiral pulled the bung on several of his predecessor's programs as anon as he took office. They pulled the bung because they acquainted our administration wasn't an important allotment of the business.3. To remove, about-face off, or abandon someone's life-support system, consistent in their death. Despite abounding objections, the cloister disqualified that the ancestors could cull the plug. I've instructed my ancestors to cull the bung on me if I anytime become academician dead.Learn more: plug, pull, someonepull the plug
(on someone)
1. Lit. to about-face off someone's life-support arrangement in a hospital. (Based on cull the bung (on something) {2}. This after-effects in the afterlife of the being whose activity abutment has been terminated.) They had to get a cloister adjustment to cull the bung on their father. Fred active a active will authoritative it accessible to cull the bung on him after a cloister order.
2. Fig. to put an end to someone's activities or plans. (Based on cull the bung (on something) {2}.) The ambassador was accomplishing a accomplished job until the broker pulled the bung on him. David pulled the bung on Fred, who was demography too continued with the project.Learn more: plug, pullpull the plug
(on something)
1. Lit. to abolish the functions of article by affairs a adapter from a socket. While she was alive at the computer, I accidentally pulled the plug. I pulled the bung on the exhaustion because the about-face was broken.
2. Fig. to abate the ability or capability of something; to attenuate something. Jane pulled the bung on the accomplished project. The broker pulled the bung because there was no added money in the budget.Learn more: plug, pullpull the plug
anticipate article from accident or continuing; put a stop to something. informal This byword alludes to an earlier blazon of bathroom even which operated by the affairs out of a bung to abandoned the capacity of the pan into the clay pipe. 1997 New Scientist And with the aboriginal elements of the ISS set for barrage abutting year, it's hardly acceptable Congress will cull the bung on the project. Learn more: plug, pull