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call off the dogs

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call off the dogs
to stop attacking or criticizing someone The bank has agreed to call off the dogs until we can get the business up and running again.
See also: call, dog
call off the dogs also call off your dogs
to cause people to stop attacking or criticizing someone It's time to call off the dogs and let her get back to doing her job.
See also: call, dog
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WILL the Shahid Malik lynch mob call off the dogs now he has been cleared in the expenses issue?
Leave Shahid alone; Mailbag by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Another British official expressed the message more bluntly: "They were warned: 'You need to call off the dogs.
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May I be so crude as to ask you to call off the dogs.
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