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Put paid to   Listen
verb
put paid to  v. t.  
1.
To put an end to. Hence: To prove false; to discredit; as, Galileo's observations put paid to the notion that the Earth was the center of the universe.
2.
To defeat; to cause the defeat of. "The Argentine's infamous Hand of God goals when he punched the ball into the net, and a spectacular solo effort put paid to England in the last eight..."






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