lay the ghost of

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lay the ghost of something/someone (to rest)

to finally stop being worried or upset by something or someone that has worried or upset you for a long time. With one stunning performance, Chelsea have laid to rest the ghost of their humiliating defeat at Old Trafford last season.

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`We hope the visit will lay the ghost of the past and let us start a new era,' says the Chairman of the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group, John Nunneley. One last great service to their country: Mary Lean meets the British ... by Lean, Mary / For A Change The stated purpose of the study is to lay the ghost of "bad taste and lack of simple logic" in the use of continuous narrative, as described by Lessing, Shaftesbury, and later Frey and others. Story and Space in Renaissance Art: the Rebirth of Continuous ... by Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg / Renaissance Quarterly More results

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`We hope the visit will lay the ghost of the past and let us start a new era,' says the Chairman of the Burma Campaign Fellowship Group, John Nunneley.

One last great service to their country: Mary Lean meets the British ... by Lean, Mary / For A Change

The stated purpose of the study is to lay the ghost of "bad taste and lack of simple logic" in the use of continuous narrative, as described by Lessing, Shaftesbury, and later Frey and others.

Story and Space in Renaissance Art: the Rebirth of Continuous ... by Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg / Renaissance Quarterly

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