send+away

  • 51send sb packing — UK INFORMAL ► to tell someone to go away because you are angry with them: »I d pay her her wages and send her packing tomorrow, but I know she d try and take us to court. ► to do better than your competitors: »They are in a position to send the… …

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  • 52send-off — send offs N COUNT: usu adj N If a group of people give someone who is going away a send off, they come together to say goodbye to them. [INFORMAL] All the people in the buildings came to give me a rousing send off …

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  • 53send someone packing — If you send someone packing, you send them away, normally when they want something from you …

    The small dictionary of idiomes

  • 54away with — To run away with ● make * * * I said as an exhortation to overcome or be rid of something; let us be rid of away with poverty! II away (or off or out, etc.) with used in exhortations to take or send someone or something away, in, out, etc off… …

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  • 55send somebody forth — ˌsend sb ˈforth derived (old fashioned literary) to send sb away from you to another place Main entry: ↑sendderived …

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  • 56send — v. dispatch, cause to go to a destination; propel, launch; dismiss, drive away; excite; please, delight (Slang); generate, produce; transmit electronically …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 57send a person about his business — send a person away, dismiss someone …

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  • 58send someone off — send (someone) off to cause someone to go away to a place. Her parents sent her off to summer camp every August …

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  • 59send off — send (someone) off to cause someone to go away to a place. Her parents sent her off to summer camp every August …

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  • 60send someone packing — send (someone) packing informal to tell someone to go away, usually because you are annoyed with them. There were some kids at the door asking for money, but I sent them packing …

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