Crossword clues for put paid to
The Collaborative International Dictionary
put paid to \put paid to\, v. t.
To put an end to. Hence: To prove false; to discredit; as, Galileo's observations put paid to the notion that the Earth was the center of the universe.
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To defeat; to cause the defeat of.
The Argentine's infamous Hand of God goals when he punched the ball into the net, and a spectacular solo effort put paid to England in the last eight . . .
--Sunday Times, 17 May 1998
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context chiefly UK dated English) To mark a bill or a debt record as "paid". 2 (context chiefly UK idiomatic English) to terminate; to cancel (plans or expectations); to stop something once and for all
Usage examples of "put paid to".
Why, they threw it away, Lieutenant, and got bogged down in endless street fighting, where a man with a tommy gun is as good as a Lizard with an automatic rifle, and a man with a Molotov cocktail can put paid to a tank that would smash a dozen Shermans in the open without breaking a sweat.
I wanted to find my man, put paid to him, and ride back to the Golden City so that I could take some well-deserved rest.
Verity, with her news of increased slippage and discrepancies, had pretty much put paid to that.
It had been a 10 cm bolt from a gun like those on the drones in the courtyard, anti-tank weapons really and the only medicine that could dependably put paid to the monsters which disputed the Settlement.
But the mine roof-fall which crippled him and eventually caused his death had put paid to those plans.
Maybe those blokes, whoever they are, will put paid to him after all.
For a moment he let his mind wander to the inevitable RCN punitive expedition that would retake Strymon and put paid to the Alliance interlopers.
I don't understand why the CD Navy hasn't put paid to Franklin's little scheme, but it's obvious Earth isn't going to do anything.
Even the regular rate of shooting put paid to the notion of going out there.
The beast had been hissing weakly, but the final smash put paid to that.