Held over
Stop
Stop verb - To bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end.
Both terms in one sentence
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Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Dermot Brown has a string of these for all the different crappy jobs he's held over the course of the series, including a giant penguin when he was selling Penguin Biscuits and a giant cigarette butt when he was part of a stop smoking campaign.
Source: Series / Mrs. Brown's Boys
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