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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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Perhaps most intriguing is the way he's managed to preserve the purposefully discordant sexual energy of his prior work while mostly deep-sixing the T & A.
The building of a major airport in north San Diego County will relieve some of the volume caused when Orange County voters deep-sixing El Toro, but Orange County still faces a bleak future.
It usually takes an outsider, like a numbers-oriented accountant, to suggest deep-sixing such an obsolete product.
 
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