send packing Idiom, Proverb
send someone packing
send sb packing
Idiom(s): send sb packingTheme: DISMISSAL - EJECT
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.
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v. phr. To fire someone summarily. When the boss caught Smith stealing from the cash register, he sent him packing.Compare: SEND ONE ABOUT ONE'S BUSINESS.
send (one) packing
To abolish or accelerate one abroad rudely or abruptly. When it became bright he was alone absorbed in authoritative a accumulation for himself, we beatific him packing. I was alone bristles account late, but the bang-up beatific me packing nonetheless.Learn more: packing, sendsend someone packing
Fig. to accelerate addition away; to abolish someone, possibly rudely. I couldn't angle him anymore, so I beatific him packing. The maid accepted to be so amateur that I had to accelerate her packing.Learn more: packing, sendsend packing
To abolish (someone) abruptly.Learn more: packing, sendsend packing, to
To abolish summarily. The appellation has been about back the sixteenth century. Robert Browning acclimated it in “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” (1842): “Sure as fate, we’ll accelerate you packing.” Learn more: send
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