cancel Christmas

cancel (one's) Christmas

slang To kill someone. As soon as that guy becomes a liability, I'll get Ray to cancel his Christmas, no problem.
See also: cancel, Christmas
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

cancel someone's Christmas

Sl. to kill someone; to destroy someone. (Underworld or jocular; the idea is that the dead person will not live until Christmas.) If he keeps bugging me, I'm gonna cancel his Christmas. Willie threatened to cancel Richard's Christmas if Richard didn't pay up.
See also: cancel, Christmas
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • cancel (one's) Christmas
  • cancel someone’s Christmas
  • Happy Christmas
  • Christmas
  • a white Christmas
  • Christmas comes but once a year
  • Merry Christmas
  • fill or kill
  • FOK
  • Christmas tree
References in periodicals archive
IF there was a big red CANCEL CHRISTMAS button, would you press it?
Jackie Grant A Dumfries woman thought she was going to have to cancel Christmas dinner after discovering her turkey was "rotten" inside.
But a spokesman for Southern said: "Not content with causing months of misery, the RMT has now hit a new low and is determined to cancel Christmas for the travelling public."
Louis van Gaal's decision to cancel Christmas Day training did not backfire.
WITH her husband having been laid off from his job as a labourer last year, it looked like Emma Callaghan would have to cancel Christmas for her and her family.
But while children (and indeed adults) are giggling away they are getting a mildly educational guided tour of Christmas through the ages as we follow the bitter and twisted Sydney Clause on his time travelling bid to cancel Christmas - all the way back to a manger in Bethlehem.
Does he also want us to cancel Christmas because he may think this is irrelevant?
For some time now melting ice at the North Pole has made our operation and our day-to-day life intolerable and impossible and there may be no alternative but to cancel Christmas" - Jim Carter, who plays the butler in Downton Abbey, speaks out as Greenpeace's Santa Claus.
For some time now melting ice at the North Pole has made our operation and our day-to-day life intolerable and impossible and there may be no alternative but to cancel Christmas" Jim Carter, who plays the butler in Downton Abbey, speaks out as Greenpeace's Santa Claus "Happiness is driving in the dark with only the odd sheep for company" Welsh singer Cerys Matthews, pictured "There is a perception that everyone else is cleverer and more handsome than you are.
1 LIKE a modern-day Scrooge, Dickie Ord threatened to cancel Christmas for his Durham City Tiny Tims.
And that means the couple have had to cancel Christmas.
KARBALA / Aswat al-Iraq: White Iraqiya bloc MP appreciated the Christian stand to cancel Christmas festivities due in Ashura' mourning days,
But when Susan decides she is fed up with his moaning and is going to cancel Christmas, Ben has a change of heart.
IT IS still unclear whether the state plans to close schools or cancel Christmas celebrations in order to control the spread of the new flu virus but it could not be ruled out, Health Minister Christos Patsalides said.
Cancel Christmas! MONDAY: Message In A Bottle ( Five, 9pm).