scuttle a plan
stop a plan
TRANSLATION
scuttle a plan = einen Plan scheitern lassen, zunichte machen, aufgeben --- GOOGLE INDEX scuttle: approximately 1,800,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
The coldest Times Square New Year's Eve in five years could SCUTTLE PLANS for some hoping to watch the ball drop, but organizers still expect throngs of revelers for the annual tradition.
(Wall Street Journal)
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Kerry warns fresh Iran sanctions could SCUTTLE nuclear talks
(BBC News headline)
(Wall Street Journal)
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Kerry warns fresh Iran sanctions could SCUTTLE nuclear talks
(BBC News headline)
Did you
know?
scuttle
verb
- to stop something happening, or to cause a plan to fail
(Cambridge Dictionaries)
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Scuttle was originally a 17th century nautical term that literally meant to cut a hole in a ship to sink it. The word stemmed from "skottell" (a noun referring to an opening in a ship's deck) by way of the French "escoutille" (modern French écoutille) or perhaps directly from the Spanish "escotilla" (hatchway), a diminutive of "escota," an opening in a garment (from escotar, meaning to cut out). The figurative sense of scuttle was first recorded around 1888.
Scuttle was then followed in the 19th century by "scuttlebutt," an expression still used today to refer to rumour or gossip. In this case "butt" refers to a container, specifically a cask or barrel kept on the ship's deck for holding drinking water.
Because the barrel had a hole (scuttle) cut in it for a cup or a dipper, sailors referred to the water barrel as a scuttlebutt. Like the modern day office water cooler, it was said that sailors often gathered around the scuttlebutt to chat or share gossip, which probably led to the figurative sense.
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SYNONYMS
destroy, abandon, stop, cancel, put an end to, eliminate, give up on, withdraw from, ditch, dump, throw out, pull out of, drop
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"We had to scuttle our holiday plans after I suddenly became sick."
verb
- to stop something happening, or to cause a plan to fail
(Cambridge Dictionaries)
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Scuttle was originally a 17th century nautical term that literally meant to cut a hole in a ship to sink it. The word stemmed from "skottell" (a noun referring to an opening in a ship's deck) by way of the French "escoutille" (modern French écoutille) or perhaps directly from the Spanish "escotilla" (hatchway), a diminutive of "escota," an opening in a garment (from escotar, meaning to cut out). The figurative sense of scuttle was first recorded around 1888.
Scuttle was then followed in the 19th century by "scuttlebutt," an expression still used today to refer to rumour or gossip. In this case "butt" refers to a container, specifically a cask or barrel kept on the ship's deck for holding drinking water.
Because the barrel had a hole (scuttle) cut in it for a cup or a dipper, sailors referred to the water barrel as a scuttlebutt. Like the modern day office water cooler, it was said that sailors often gathered around the scuttlebutt to chat or share gossip, which probably led to the figurative sense.
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SYNONYMS
destroy, abandon, stop, cancel, put an end to, eliminate, give up on, withdraw from, ditch, dump, throw out, pull out of, drop
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"We had to scuttle our holiday plans after I suddenly became sick."
