Every day about noon, traffic in town grinds to a halt.
•The bus ground to a halt at the corner and someone got off.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
grind to a halt — grind to a halt/standstill if an organization, system, or process grinds to a halt, it stops working, usually because of a problem. If the computer network crashed, the whole office would grind to a halt … New idioms dictionary
grind to a halt — {v. phr.}, {informal} To slow down and stop like a machine does when turned off. * /The old car ground to a halt in front of the house./ * /The Cardinals offense ground to a halt before the stubborn Steeler defense./ … Dictionary of American idioms
grind to a halt — ► grind to a halt (or come to a grinding halt) stop laboriously and noisily. Main Entry: ↑grind … English terms dictionary
grind to a halt — grind to a halt/standstill ► to stop gradually: »Business ground to a standstill during the bad weather. Main Entry: ↑grind … Financial and business terms
grind to a halt — verb be unable to move further The car bogged down in the sand • Syn: ↑get stuck, ↑bog down, ↑mire • Derivationally related forms: ↑mire (for: ↑mire) … Useful english dictionary
grind to a halt — to slowly come to a stop. Traffic on the interstate almost ground to a halt today because it was so foggy. The strike has caused production of new cars to grind to a halt … New idioms dictionary
grind to a halt — stop with regret and problems If he quits, the project will grind to a halt. It depends on him … English idioms
grind to a halt (or come to a grinding halt) — slow down gradually and then stop completely. → grind … English new terms dictionary
grind to a halt/standstill — ► to stop gradually: »Business ground to a standstill during the bad weather. Main Entry: ↑grind … Financial and business terms
grind to a halt — 1) if a vehicle grinds to a halt, it moves more and more slowly until it finally stops The traffic finally ground to a halt outside the station. 2) if a process or a country grinds to a halt, things gradually get slower until they finally stop… … English dictionary
