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词组 send packing
释义
Idiom
send packingsend (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.

send (one) packing

To dismiss or send one away rudely or abruptly. When it became clear he was only interested in making a profit for himself, we sent him packing. I was only five minutes late, but the boss sent me packing nonetheless.

send someone packing

Fig. to send someone away; to dismiss someone, possibly rudely. I couldn't stand him anymore, so I sent him packing. The maid proved to be so incompetent that I had to send her packing.

send packing

To dismiss (someone) abruptly.

send packing, to

To dismiss summarily. The term has been around since the sixteenth century. Robert Browning used it in “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” (1842): “Sure as fate, we’ll send you packing.”
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