Well, then, I'll put paid to that little account.

If Harry had always seemed a sickly child, Harrow put paid to notions that he was really a physical weakling.

This puts paid to the argument that a claimant who comes to a nuisance has impliedly consented to the continuance of that nuisance.

The Guardian recently uncovered nearly 200 new projects – “carbon bombs” – that if completed would put paid to the world’s chances of limiting global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

The rain put paid to our plans for a picnic.

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