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grind to a halt

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grind to a halt
Fig. to slow down and stop. Every day about noon, traffic in town grinds to a halt. The bus ground to a halt at the corner and someone got off.
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grind to a halt/standstill
if an organization, system, or process grinds to a halt, it stops working, usually because of a problem If the computer network crashed, the whole office would grind to a halt.
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grind to a halt
to slowly come to a stop Traffic on the interstate almost ground to a halt today because it was so foggy. The strike has caused production of new cars to grind to a halt.
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s When people aren't pedalling hard enough the film - which will be, of course, bicycle related - is likely to grind to a halt.
Pedalling a cinema revolution by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Without a sufficient driving force from the voters behind it, the entire democratic machine of the country is likely to grind to a halt, and the consequence will be total submission to the dictation of Brussels.
Change must come; LETTERS to the EDITOR by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
We are getting to the end of the hedge-laying season now so things will grind to a halt to a certain extent, butwe have just about finished what we wanted to do by this stage.
Hedging their bets for future by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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