call a halt to

call a halt to something

to demand that something be stopped. We must call a halt to this childish behavior. The manager called a halt to all overtime.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Tancredi	-	Italian
Alfhildr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Natalija	-	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
Ramadan	-	Arabic
Petrus	PE-truws (German)	Dutch, German, Biblical Latin
Marcelina	mahr-tse-LEE-nah	Polish