• aname
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    1 年前

    I cannot make heads or tails from that title

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      Yes, “to put paid to (something)” is a rather rare British English idiom, and I also had to look it up. Basically, it means “to stop something from happening or spoil plans for something”.

    • “The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Lithuania worked together to unseat Russia from the Executive Council of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW),”