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deep-six
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deep-six someone or something
Sl. to get rid of someone or something; to dispose of someone or something. (Refers originally to burying someone or something six feet deep, the standard depth of a grave.) Take this horrible food out and deep-six it. That guy is a pain. Deep-six him so the cops will never find him.

deep-six somebody/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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But she deep-sixed her secretarial career when she joined Dean's excellent modern dance program.
95 purchase to add thousands of dollars to the sale of your home, said store owner Hal Storey, who deep-sixed a statue to sell his Minnesota home in 1964.
This despicable plan was thankfully deep-sixed when news of the memo set off wide and universal outrage.
 
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