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Throw away   /θroʊ əwˈeɪ/   Listen
Throw away

verb
2.
Get rid of.  Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, shed, throw, throw off.  "Shed your clothes"






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"Throw away" Quotes from Famous Books



... to throw away every possibility of happiness?" she demanded indignantly. "Just because Michael isn't here, waiting for you on the doorstep, so to speak, you decide to rush off and make it impossible for him ever to ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... not necessarily continued tragedy and waste, of that I am certain. Only a little thought is required, it seems to me, to assure us that we cannot be the judges of our own punishment on this earth. And of another world we know nothing. It cannot be any one's destiny to throw away a life while still something may be made of it. You would be throwing your life away here. That no other woman is possible, or ever can be possible, for me should be a consideration with you, Honora. What I ask of you is a ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... children in its village, and who they are and all about them; but in London it is not so. And many rich children grumble all the time if they do not have everything they want, and never think of their poor little brothers and sisters, who would snatch eagerly at many of the things they throw away. ...
— The Children's Book of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton

... noble Caesar, & all these brave bridegroomes, with their fine little dydoppers, that looke before they sleep to throw away their maiden heads: I am host of the Hobbie, Cornut. is my neighbour, but wele pull of his bopeeper; thou't know me by my nose, I am a mad merie grig, come to make thy grace laugh; sir Scillicet my guest; all true canaries, that love juce of grapes, ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen

... man, I should throw away your words as the veriest Magician's coin; but if they are true metal—why I'll ask you to take me to see ...
— Say and Seal, Volume II • Susan Warner


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