press pause
verbEtymology By analogy with the "pause" button on a media player.
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Informal To temporarily stop a process.
- 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.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC: