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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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This means that when Citigroup and Merrill Lynch recently made changes at the top, a lot of followers should have been deep-sixes as well, since without their disastrous followershipping, the disastrous leader-shippery could never have taken effect.
 
 
 
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