deep six

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Meaning: (idiomatic)Todiscard,get rid of, orcancel; to completelyput an end tosomething.They had put many hundreds of hours into the project before it wasdeep-sixedby management.2021,John H. McWhorter, chapter 2, inWoke Racism, New York: Forum,→ISBN:We wonder why that mild-mannered woman we met at the faculty mixer was on the committee that came close todeep-sixingthe career of a liberal professor who did nothing wrong.

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