stop

Related to stop: Stop watch, stop order, stop the clock
See:
  • (I'm/We're) (so) glad you could stop by
  • a quick drop and a sudden stop
  • a stopped clock is right twice a day
  • a whistle-stop tour
  • buck stops here
  • buck stops here, the
  • come to a full stop
  • come to a stop
  • face (that) would stop a clock
  • face only a mother could love
  • full stop
  • glad you could drop by
  • homely enough to stop a clock
  • if you're in a hole, stop digging
  • I'll put a stop to that
  • jolt to a start
  • jolt to a stop
  • make a pit stop
  • nature stop
  • pit stop
  • pull all the stops out
  • pull out all the stops
  • pull out all the stops, to
  • put a stop to
  • put a stop to (something)
  • put an end to
  • rain stopped play
  • some people (just) don't know when to stop
  • some people don't know when to quit
  • stop (dead) in (one's) tracks
  • stop (one) cold
  • stop (one's) clock
  • stop (one's) ears
  • stop (one's) mouth
  • stop (someone or something) (dead) in its/(one's) tracks
  • stop (someone or something) from (doing something)
  • stop (someone) dead
  • stop a gap
  • stop and smell the coffee
  • stop and smell the roses
  • stop at
  • stop at (something)
  • stop at nothing
  • stop behind
  • stop behind (someone or something)
  • stop by
  • stop cold
  • stop dead
  • stop dead in tracks
  • stop down
  • stop for
  • stop for (someone or something)
  • stop from doing
  • stop in
  • stop ironing my head
  • stop off
  • stop on
  • stop on (something)
  • stop on a dime
  • stop one dead in tracks
  • stop out
  • stop over
  • stop payment
  • stop press
  • stop short
  • stop short of (something)
  • stop short of a place
  • stop short of doing
  • stop sleeping on (someone or something)
  • stop someone in their tracks
  • stop someone's clock
  • stop someone's mouth
  • stop something in its tracks
  • stop the bleeding
  • stop the clock
  • stop the lights
  • stop the music
  • Stop the music!
  • Stop the music! Hold everything!
  • Stop the presses!
  • Stop the presses! Hold everything!
  • stop the rot
  • stop the show
  • stop the world, I want to get off
  • stop to smell the roses
  • stop up
  • stop your ears
  • stop, look, and listen
  • stop/halt somebody in their tracks
  • stop-watch critic
  • the buck stops here
  • the buck stops with (one)
  • there's no holding (someone)
  • there's no holding/stopping somebody
  • there's no stopping (someone)
  • whistle-stop
  • whistle-stop tour
  • will stop at nothing
References in classic literature
They no sooner heard the cry, and saw Oliver running, than, guessing exactly how the matter stood, they issued forth with great promptitude; and, shouting 'Stop thief!' too, joined in the pursuit like good citizens.
up go the windows, out run the people, onward bear the mob, a whole audience desert Punch in the very thickest of the plot, and, joining the rushing throng, swell the shout, and lend fresh vigour to the cry, 'Stop thief!
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boys Progress
A Sioux chief, wishing to stop the train, but not knowing how to work the regulator, had opened wide instead of closing the steam-valve, and the locomotive was plunging forward with terrific velocity.
Around The World In Eighty Days
The pony, impelled by some secret sympathy or some new caprice, burst into a great pace, and neither slackened it, nor indulged in any eccentric performances, until they arrived at the door of Mr Swiveller's lodging, where, marvellous to relate, he consented to stop when Mr Abel checked him.
The Old Curiosity Shop
"I shan't hate fresh air if we can find--" He remembered just in time to stop himself from saying "if we can find the secret garden" and he ended, "I shall like to go out with you if Dickon will come and push my chair.
Secret Garden
'Whoa!' means to stop; 'Get-Up!' means to walk forward; 'Trot!' means to go as fast as you can.
The Marvelous Land of Oz
"If you or any of your men meet with the woman, stop her, and send her in careful keeping to that address.
The Woman in White
Not as many as I did at first, because now only the new ones stop in there-- the others go right along through.
Tramp Abroad
de Bragelonne turned round; his countenance expressed a lively grief, but he did not stop; we then concluded that his horse must have run away with him.
The Man in the Iron Mask
"Big fella shark-fish, that fella leg stop 'm along him," the ancient grinned, exposing a horrible aperture of toothlessness for a mouth.
Michael Brother of Jerry
One of the most common is the sight of a couple of towers, walking briskly along, deep in an animated discussion, while the man in the boat, a hundred yards behind them, is vainly shrieking to them to stop, and making frantic signs of distress with a scull.
Three Men In A Boat
Him say any amount bad fella boy stop 'm along bush.
Jerry of the Islands
'I must calm myself and think things over,' he said to himself, but yet he could not stop, and continued to urge the horse on, without noticing that he was now going with the wind instead of against it.
Master and Man
Graham says we ain't to stop there when there's time to construe more."
Tom Browns Schooldays
"Stop, that the gentleman may see," said the officer, with that frank kindliness which is peculiar to military men, to the soldier who was acting as postilion.
The Black Tulip