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spoil

tv. to kill someone. It was Joel Cairo’s job to make sure that nobody got close enough to Mr. Big to spoil him.

See:

• be spoiled for choice
• be spoiling for
• be spoiling for a fight
• be spoilt for choice
• do not spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar
• it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) barrel
• it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) bunch
• it takes one bad apple to spoil the (whole) bushel
• one bad apple spoils the (whole) barrel
• one bad apple spoils the (whole) bunch
• one bad apple spoils the (whole) bushel
• rotten apple
• rotten apple spoils the barrel
• spare the rod and spoil the child
• spoil
• spoil for
• spoil rotten
• spoil the ship for a hap'orth of tar
• spoiled for choice
• spoiled rotten
• spoiling for a fight
• to the victor belong the spoils
• to the victor go the spoils
• To the victors belong the spoils
• too many cooks spoil the broth
• too many cooks spoil the soup
• Too many cooks spoil the stew