pull the plug on

基本解釋

This needn't pull the plug on passion, but it'll make you more aware so you don't go looking for trouble.
你無須在熱情高漲時突然中斷戀情，但是有了這些方法，你會更小心，避免使自己陷入泥潭。
Managers delay new products, leave factories unbuilt, pull the plug on loss-making divisions, and cut costs and jobs.
公司經(jīng)理們會延遲推出新產(chǎn)品，停止新建工廠，撤掉持續(xù)虧損的分公司，削減開支，裁員。
Nearly half of public health professionals were willing to pull the plug on a patient's life support to save others, compared with less than a third of doctors.
有接近一半的專業(yè)人士愿意拔掉病人的生命維持插頭來拯救其他人，相對于只有三分之一的醫(yī)生會這樣做。

The man who took the decision to pull the plug on the talks is Greek Cypriot Presidential Commissioner George Iacovou.
"The closeness the continuing progress on the Cypriot talks, would suggest that the European Union is not going to pull the plug on Turkey, because that simply would stop hopes of peace and reconciliation on Cyprus,too.

The only cure for the IMF's ills is to pull the plug on that international bureaucracy.
FORBES: Abolish The IMF
Congress has officially decided to pull the plug on President Bush's free trade agenda.
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