If you keep giving it, it will keep killing the babies and eventually the adults should die by themselves after a couple years. (doorbellvet.com)
false start: I refer to turning the key and stopping before the engine has started properly and it then dies by itself before there is any power for the throttle. (mechanics.stackexchange.com)
Elijah is certainly confronted with the retribution of Jezebel, the judgment Jesus spoke of when he said, «Those who live by the sword die by it.» (religion-online.org)