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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: Christmas cancel someone out of something and cancel someone out 1. to eliminate someone from something (as from a list of names). We had to cancel them out. We canceled out all the people who did not show up. 2. Sl. to eliminate someone; to kill someone. The drug lord threatened to cancel out his former partner for testifying against him. See also: out cancel something out to balance the effects of something. Sending flowers might cancel the bad feelings out. The last payment canceled out the debt. See also: out cancel each other out [for the opposite effects of two things] to balance each other. The cost of the meal you bought and what I owed you cancel each other out, so we're even. They canceled out each other. cancel out (of something) to withdraw from something. I hate to cancel out of the event at the last minute, but this is an emergency. It's too late to cancel out. See also: out How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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MAS is close to canceling its order for six aircraft. If you have had a car repossessed, a home foreclosed, negotiated a lower interest payment on a mortgage or other loan, or had a credit card debt written off with the creditor forgiving or canceling the balance, you should look for the 1099 form to come in the mail. is canceling Steven Miles's personalized license plate because, apparently, it is `obscene or objectionable,'" reports The Independent Florida Alligator. |
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