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"Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" was a popular British patriotic song of the First World War.It was first recorded on 6 October 1914 by Mark Sheridan. [1] The song refers to the 1914 campaign in Belgium when the small British Expeditionary Force, along with an unexpectedly fierce Belgian defence, managed to delay the much larger German army, slowing them and wrecking the Schlieffen Plan ...
(from caoinim Irish pronunciation: [ˈkiːnʲəmʲ] meaning "I wail") to lament, to wail mournfully (OED). No relation to "keen" = eager. kibosh, kybosh to finish, to put an end to: "That's put the kibosh on it". The OED says the origin is obscure and possibly Yiddish.
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Mark Sheridan (11 September 1864 – 15 January 1918), born Frederick Shaw, was an English music hall comedian and singer. He became a popular performer of lusty seaside songs and originated the J. Glover-Kind classic, "I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside" in 1909.
"Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" by Mark Sheridan "Brindisi" from La traviata, by Enrico Caruso & Alma Gluck "The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" by Billy Murray;
A nor’easter nearly put the kibosh on the whole event. The forecast for Kennedy’s Inauguration Day was “cold and windy with some sunshine and a high of not more than 35 degrees,” according ...
Variety said, "Sugary sweet and full of eye candy, 'I Do (But I Don't)' tries hard to hark back to the days when men and women in films meet cute, have a series of silly misunderstandings that put the kibosh on the budding relationship and then meet even cuter to reconcile. In this day of omnipresent email and cell phones, the conceit is a ...
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