nobody is pulling the plug on granny

pulling the plug就是把电线插头拔掉。 这种俗话意思不精确而可有多种解释。

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One of its early victories was in Jerusalem, where it found that a fire hydrant was indeed being used to fill a private swimming pool—pulling the plug, as it were, on a very surprised water thief.

探测引擎在耶路撒冷取得初步的成功，它发现一个消火栓实际在用来为一个私人泳池蓄水。 似乎，供水的突然停止得让这个偷水的家伙目瞪口呆。

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This post attempts to summarize the Xmarks story: how we got to be the most heavily used browser synchronization service in the world and yet still find ourselves pulling the plug.

写这篇博客，我是想总结一下Xmarks的历程，讲述我们如何成为全世界使用量最庞大的浏览器同步服务、却仍然不得不停止运作的？

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The first is that Cisco is pulling the plug on the Flip video camera.

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Now they're pulling the plug on anything that doesn't look like a sure success.

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So there is no point in pulling the plug on a loser until it is thoroughly and completely dead.

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