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out of the way

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out of the way
1. not near any cities or large towns. We decided to vacation in a quiet place in Maine that is really out of the way.
2. completed. I'm glad my final exams are out of the way.
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He was jerked out of the way, into a room with the convicted prisoners, where he sat and wept like a child in his impotent rage.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
It was in this year that General Custer was killed by the Sioux; that the flimsy iron railway bridge fell at Ashtabula; that the "Molly Maguires" terrorized Pennsylvania; that the first wire of the Brooklyn Bridge was strung; and that Boss Tweed and Hell Gate were both put out of the way in New York.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
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