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go by the board |
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go by the board Fig. to get ruined or lost. (This is originally a nautical expression meaning "to fall or be washed overboard.") I hate to see good food go by the board. Please eat up so we won't have to throw it out. Your plan has gone by the board. The entire project has been canceled. See also: board go by the board (British, American & Australian) also go by the boards (American) if something that has been planned or arranged goes by the board, it does not happen, and if something that exists goes by the board, it ends All our careful arrangements went by the board when the trip was cancelled at the last minute. When modern machinery was introduced, old-fashioned printing methods went by the board. See also: board go by the board to stop existing Alsop complained that the world he knew as a young man had gone by the board. Usage notes: also used in the form go by the boards See also: board How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Well, I have loved, lived with, and left the sea without ever seeing a ship's tall fabric of sticks, cobwebs and gossamer go by the board. There was no mistaking the sincerity of his distress or the strength of his determination: he had evidently resolved to let everything go by the board but the supreme need of thus putting himself on record. |
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