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Definition of Pull the plug
1. Verb. Prevent from happening or continuing. "The government pulled the plug on spending"
Definition of Pull the plug
1. Verb. (intransitive) to unplug or cut power ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) (idiomatic) to cease to support; to halt ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) to cease life support ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) (idiomatic) to cease from production or publication. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull The Plug
Literary usage of Pull the plug
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"sary than to pull the plug out, and the boat, rising from its less specific
gravity, will let all the water through at the plug-hole; an injury, ..."
2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John Smith (1867)
"The boys did swear against one of them, that he had made it his part to pull the
plug out of the engine while it was a-playing ; ana it really was so. ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1907)
"After the first ten trials, she discovered that she could stand in front of the
box and reach up and pull the plug out with her teeth. ..."
4. The University of Hard Knocks: The School that Completes Our Education by Ralph Albert Parlette (1917)
"I Can Only Pull the Plug! Every audience has a different temperature, ...
Some warm September day I would pull the plug from the barrel and the sorghum ..."
5. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1862)
"... whilst with the right hand wo draw forward the string that appears through
the nostril, and pull the plug firmly into the required position; ..."
6. Gas and Fuel Analysis for Engineers: A Compend for Those Interested in the by Augustus Herman Gill (1917)
"When the pipe touches the bottom, the sampler should draw up the slack of the
wire and pull the plug into place; then he should strike the plug smartly ..."
7. The Common Sense of Bicycling: Bicycling for Ladies by Maria E. Ward (1896)
"Pull the string to pull the plug into place, see that there is plenty of cement
around and about it, inflate the tire, ..."
8. Quiet Talks on Power by Samuel Dickey Gordon (1903)
"It said in effect: "Ef you'll jes pull the plug out of the pipe about eight inches
from the top you'll get all the water you want. ..."
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