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cast off

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cast off something
to get rid of something. Shirts and ties were being cast off in favor of informal clothes for business.
Etymology: based on the literal meaning of cast off (= to unfasten the ropes holding a ship)
See also: cast

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The outer envelope might then be cast off as a useless encumbrance; and the second balloon, left free to itself, would not offer the same hold to the currents of air as a half-inflated one must needs present.
At once the men of the Emerald City cast off their aprons.
With this thing which I have stolen, I will unlock these locks and cast off these chains to-night.
 
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