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kick a habit
Idioms and Phrases
Also, kick it ; kick the habit . Overcome or give up habitual use, especially of narcotics. For example, Smoking is addictive; it's not easy to kick , or If he doesn't kick the habit, he may not make it through school . This idiom uses kick in the sense of “get rid of.†[First half of 1900s]Example Sentences
As anyone who's attempted to kick a habit or to stick to a new year's resolution past January will know, changes to our lifestyle, including diet, are often tough to implement and even trickier to maintain.
They don't understand how you can kick a habit that they battle with, so the only thing that makes them feel right is attacking you for doing so.
That includes more focus on mental health services and treatment opportunities for those trying to kick a habit.
Research suggests it takes 21 days to kick a habit or wean yourself off an addiction, which is how many of the group see sugar and fizzy drinks.
That didn’t stop state politicians from trying to cut funding for drug treatment by 20 percent, which would have kicked 37,000 people out of services while they were trying to kick a habit.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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