Go ahead
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both terms in one sentence
- He is not particularly upset by this, and persuades her to go ahead with the marriage anyway because it's the best way to stop her city getting torn apart.
Source: Test Kiss -
Already armed with a plan to stop a hostile force taking over the ship by removing the atmosphere from the gate room, the daring Colonel decides not to go ahead after The Mole walks through the gate.
Source: Series / Stargate Universe - In the first season of Arrow, Oliver Queen's crimefighting persona went by "The Hood" or occasionally "The Vigilante," which didn't stop many viewers from calling him "Arrow." (When they didn't just go ahead and call him Green Arrow).
Source: I Am Not Shazam / Live-Action TV
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