Idiom
stop the bleeding
Meaning
To recover by interrupting a string of losses, disappointments, etc.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We need to stop the bleeding and win this game.”
“After three months of falling sales, the manager introduced new discounts to stop the bleeding.”
“The government implemented emergency fiscal reforms in a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding of the national economy.”
Examples
simple
“We need to stop the bleeding and win this game.”
contextual
“After three months of falling sales, the manager introduced new discounts to stop the bleeding.”
complex
“The government implemented emergency fiscal reforms in a desperate attempt to stop the bleeding of the national economy.”
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