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cancel Christmas

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cancel someone's Christmas
Sl. to kill someone; to destroy someone. (Underworld or jocular; the idea is that the dead person will not live until Christmas.) If he keeps bugging me, I'm gonna cancel his Christmas. Willie threatened to cancel Richard's Christmas if Richard didn't pay up.
See also: cancel, Christmas


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From a few examples of nativity scenes pulled from schools and the spread of the omnipresent and offensively bland greeting "Happy Holidays," conservative culture warriors conjured the specter of a conspiracy to cancel Christmas in favor of a secular, generic "winter holiday.
At his Jericho office, Saeb Erekat, the veteran PA negotiator who has resigned from the new Palestinian cabinet (see last week's Recorder) and whose resignation was accepted by PM Abbas, tells The FT: "I came to the conclusion that it would be easier for the Pope to cancel Christmas Mass than for Sharon to accept the road map".
Fearful that the fallen reindeer may cause Santa to cancel Christmas, Olive tries out for the sleigh team.
 
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