dealbreaker

dealbreaker

A specific issue or thing that will cause an agreement, deal, or relationship to fail or be terminated. He told me he never wanted to have kids, which is a dealbreaker for me, so we decided to end the relationship then and there. The insurgency's insistence on maintaining a political presence was a dealbreaker for the truce negotiations.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • fall flat
  • stop at
  • stop at (something)
  • fail at life
  • garden leave
  • gardening leave
  • be on the skids
  • become unstuck
  • terminate
  • terminate someone with extreme prejudice
References in periodicals archive
Trump has repeatedly pointed to Canada's tariffs on dairy imports as a dealbreaker, and has threatened to tax cars imported from Canada.
Dryness is always a dealbreaker with me but this is just perfect.
What's missing, then, is Now TV, Sky's streaming service for its channels, which may be a dealbreaker if you're a Sky Atlantic fan.
Economist Alan Clarke, of Scotiabank, said: "This weak data shouldn't be a dealbreaker for a May rate hike, but I'm wary of how many times I've said that."
Although they may think Umno candidates, for instance, are good, they still would not support them because they are still attached to the same big boss Datuk Seri Najib Razak, whose baggages are a dealbreaker.
A Juve goal would not be a dealbreaker, if Spurs can invest in one, since they already have the back-up
But Flynn said one provision could open the door to moving future employees to retirement plans that are less like pensions and more like 401(k)s, something he said could be a dealbreaker.
The secondary concern I have is a dealbreaker if it's true.
Likewise, a dealbreaker for him, he said, was the fact that Duterte was allied with the communist New People's Army, especially since the rebels had killed many soldiers and policemen.
It was not a dealbreaker that as recently as November 2012 Trump was slamming GOP presidential loser Mitt Romney for his "mean-spirited," "crazy," and "maniacal" policy of encouraging illegal immigrants to self-deport.
Still, negotiators said stockpiles were not a dealbreaker. It was not clear if the Iranian backtracking on certain proposals was a sign that Tehran might be getting cold feet.
But, he said, motocross sports are a "dealbreaker.''
With that background, the Finn's placings of tenth and fifth yesterday are far from alarming and a P2 time less than a second behind Hamilton is not a dealbreaker either given that his second on the grid in Germany came after he was more than a second back on day one.
Just got off a dealbreaker relationship with a man slightly older than myself who tried to, like, run every avenue of my life!
ICD-10 transition: 'No big deal' or dealbreaker? While the behavioral health industry has historically been "immune" from many of heakhcare's major changes, the ICD-10 transition is an exception.