kybosh

Example sentences from the Web for kybosh

• This definitely puts the kybosh on the make-up rumors, as there is no way Harry could marry a movie star.

  Cressida Bonas Cast In New Weinstein Movie |Tom Sykes |June 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

• Kybosh; some sort of difficulty or 'fix':—'He put the kybosh on him: he defeated him.'

  English As We Speak It in Ireland |P. W. Joyce

• That put the kybosh on one bit, but it didn't 'urt the general scheme not a bit.

  Twelve Stories and a Dream |H. G. Wells

• There'll be a dickens of a kybosh if they find we've broken parole, and I don't want you hauled into the beastly thing.

  The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel |Mary E. Hanshew