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deep-six

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deep-six someone/something (American, informal)
to get rid of someone or something. They want to deep-six the project because it's costing too much money.

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After Stephen Harper and the Conservatives took power in Ottawa one year ago, they made good on their promise to deep-six the previous Liberal government's promised universal child-care program.
Most X-fans could easily come up with a short list of mutants they'd like to deep-six.
I've figured out how to deep-six that detestable, untestable, pseudoscientific, time-wasting, national embarrassment of a nontheory called Intelligent Design.
 
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