press pause
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
By analogy with the "pause" button on a media player.
Verb[edit]
press pause (third-person singular simple present presses pause, present participle pressing pause, simple past and past participle pressed pause)
- (intransitive, informal) To temporarily stop a process.
- 2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC[1]:
- Chinese state media has pressed pause on the US-bashing, releasing a raft of commentaries extolling the merits of resetting relations and working on co-operation.