call a halt to

call a halt to (something)

To order the end or stoppage of something. Stop all printing—the boss has called a halt to this project! When are they ever going to call a halt to this interminable highway construction? The new project had been going well, but when our manager was fired, the department head called a halt to everything.
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call a halt to something

to demand that something be stopped. We must call a halt to this childish behavior. The manager called a halt to all overtime.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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