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send down
verb
- to expel from a university, esp permanently
- informal.to send to prison
Idioms and Phrases
Suspend or dismiss from a university, principally a British one. For example, He's done very poorly ever since he was sent down from Oxford . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Bow Street has now been informed, and will send down by to-night's coach, but I do not think they will make much of the job.
And what particular fugitive would you like to send down it now?
Put wet cloths round his head for the present; I will go and fetch my colleague, and I will send down some ice from the hospital.
Did he not send down to parliament that message which denounced his queen a criminal?
As the tide runs out, the little ditches send down runnels of clear water.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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