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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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Every Palestinian will become homeless, unemployment will be 100 percent, education will grind to a standstill, and anyone with any gumption to resist will be buried.
The Transit Mixed Concrete project is necessary because without a new source of sand and gravel, construction in the San Fernando Valley will grind to a standstill, said Brian Mastin, the environmental affairs manager for TMC, which is a division of Houston-based Southdown Inc.
In other bad news for landlords and retailers, Kimball predicted that net inmigration to the state would grind to a standstill, falling to almost zero in 1994 through 1996.
 
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