Значения термина put a quietus на английском

I think, though, it was really little Miss Flidgett who put a quietus on that plan.

Some good laws, too, that would put a quietus on this Smith Crothers' ambitions ought to be looked after.

This put a quietus on all business, and the entire troop clustered around Elmer, begging to know what it could mean.

His increasing professional duties and his political employments put a quietus to those finer intellectual indulgences with which his earlier years were fruitful.

The panic of 1857, soon followed by the great Civil war, put a quietus on immigration, and left him stranded high on the beach.

The cold, however, promptly put a quietus upon their merriment and they scuttled past, bent on getting out of it as quickly as possible.

None of these men have succeeded in "laying" or putting a quietus to it.