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kick aside

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kick someone or something aside 
1. Lit. to get someone or something out of the way by kicking. The bully kicked Timmy aside and grabbed our cake. I kicked aside the cats and came into the room.
2. . Fig. to get rid of someone or something. He simply kicked aside his wife and took up with some young chick. I kicked the old laptop aside and got a new one.
See also: aside, kick


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Skating hard toward the left post, Whitney scored while being tripped by Miami's Brian Kaufman after RedHawks goalie Jeff Zatkoff used his right pad to kick aside a booming slap shot by Dan Bertram.
It's partly a result of the egocentrism of the 1980s where everyone's voice is equally important, partly a reaction to the evidently self-serving practice of friends reviewing each others' books in the media, and partly the legacy of the Oedipal desire of the generation of critical theorists who learned at the feet of men like Leavis to kick aside the old values of their teachers.
On an Ottawa rush, he stretched to kick aside a shot and was unable to get back up.
 
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