knock it off

1. Quit or stop doing something, as in Knock it off, boys! That's enough noise. This term is often used as an imperative. [Colloquial; c. 1900] Also see knock off.

Example Sentences

“Even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off, he was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children,” Noem said in the unedited version of the interview she posted on X.

From Los Angeles Times

Greg Gutfeld also reached for metaphors when he urged the two billionaires to “knock it off.”

From Salon

That is very clear to me now, “Oh, they are saying this very vanilla thing, but that is a signal to this country to knock it off.”

From Los Angeles Times

He second-guessed himself long enough for his wife to tell him to knock it off.

From Los Angeles Times

“To let them demonize me in such a way that my friends cannot visit me without you attacking them — but yet you stand next to Donald Trump? Knock it off,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• break off 
• cut off 
• halt 
• interrupt 
• nullify 
• scrap 
• scrub 
• terminate