expel (someone or something) from (something)
expel (someone or something) from (something)
1. To send or force someone from a place or area. The librarian promptly expelled those chatty girls from the building. If you keep getting into fights with your classmates, you might just get expelled from school.
2. To spew something out of something. The factory expelled smoke from its smokestacks.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
expel someone from something
to force someone to leave something or some place; to eject someone from something or some place. The two men expelled the fighters from the tavern. Ken was expelled from school for disciplinary reasons
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expel something from something
to force or eject something out of something. The machine expelled cup after cup from its opening. The volcano expelled huge globs of molten lava.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- expel
- expel from
- out with (someone or something)
- give (someone) the can
- can
- can (someone)
- canned
- point at
- be (all) brothers/sisters under the skin
- be brothers/sisters under the skin