slam the brakes on

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slam the brakes on

to push on a vehicle's brakes suddenly and hard. (The can be replaced by a possessive pronoun.) The driver in front of me slammed her brakes on and I nearly ran into her. Don't slam on your brakes when the road is wet.

See also: brake, slam

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Looking at the full lifecycle emissions of transportation leads me to conclude that we need to slam the brakes on all urban roadway expansion and shift the resources to high-quality transit to get people out of their cars, fast. Beyond the tailpipe by Doherty, Eric / World Watch Byline: By MIKE WALTERS TOTTENHAM became the first major club to slam the brakes on runaway season ticket costs last night by freezing prices for up to two years. SPURS CUT FANS' BILL by The Mirror (London, England) Pressure has been growing on the government and the Bank of England (BoE) to do more to resolve a mortgage debt crisis that is threatening to slam the brakes on the British economy. British loans plan on way by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)			skinny as a beanpole skinny-dip skip skip it Skip it! skip off skip out skip out with skip over skip rope skip through skirmish with skirt skirt around skittle skull skunk sky slack slack off slack up slam slam down slam dunk slam into slam the brakes on slam the door in face slant slant against slant toward slap slap against slap and tickle slap down slap in slap in the face slap on slap on the wrist slap onto slash slash and burn slash at slate slate for slated for slated to do scheduled to do slaughter slave slave away slave over slave to			slalomers slaloming slaloming slalomist slalomist slaloms slaloms SLALS slam slam slam slam slam slam dance slam dancing slam down slam down slam dunk slam dunk slam dunk Slam Dunk Records slam dunks SLAM ER Slam Exploration Ltd. slam into slam into SLAM Magazine slam on Slam poet Slam Poetry slam the brakes on slam the door in face SLAM-Associated Protein slam-bang slam-dance slam-dunk slam-dunked slam-dunker slam-dunking slam-dunks SLAM-ER SLAMC Slamdunk SLAMEM Slamet SLAMEX SLAMIS Slamkin SLAML SLAMM SLAMMD slammed slammed slammed slammed slammed into slammed into slammed into slammer slammer slammers

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