The word 'kibosh' is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to mean "something which puts an end to an activity or situation" (Oxford English Dictionary). For example, "The teacher put the kibosh on our plan to skip class".
Israel could seek to kibosh the arrangement, for instance by continuing to refuse to let the Palestinians receive customs revenue that it previously agreed to pass on.
Plainly, Israel's hawkish prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, senses a chance to help kibosh an American diplomatic initiative that discomfited him from the start.Some Iranians who cheered Mr Obama's policy of engagement may have changed their minds.
Moreover, the Social Democrats are themselves split on the issue.Few Swedes believe that the Danes have put the kibosh on their chances of joining the euro for ever.
A large shift to electric cars would put the kibosh on the biofuel market as currently conceived by most of its supporters; but it would not necessarily kill the principle of using plants to convert sunlight into car-power.
General Anupong Paochinda, the army chief, met senior politicians before the vote to offer his advice, meetings that seem to have put the kibosh on last-ditch efforts by Mr Thaksin's allies to form their own government.Naturally, the generals deny any political meddling.
A deteriorating economy put the kibosh on those plans.
Nobody would have elected him to anything.In this section Cross his heart Writing for their lives Greek gifts Classical notes Battle for the bench No laughing Louis The kibosh on the kaiser Shades of grey ReprintsHis baleful heritage also included an almost religious reverence for the Prussian army.
It could kibosh hopes that Poland, the economic heavyweight of the ex-communist world, might finally obtain the political clout it merits.
PETER MANDELSON, the EU trade commissioner, is putting the kibosh on a French idea to slap tariffs on American goods products from countries that don't comply with Kyoto.It doesn't strike me as an obviously daft idea.
Nor is it likely to kibosh the government's five-year austerity plan.
Kamal Nath, India's trade minister, helped kibosh a breakthrough in the Doha round of global trade talks by refusing to compromise over demands for safeguard tariffs to protect more than 200m Indian farmers.
