drop someone or something off (some place)

drop someone or something off (some place)
drop someone or something off(some place)
1. Lit. to let someone or a group out of a vehicle at a particular place; to deliver someone or something some place. •

Let's drop these shirts off at the cleaners.

Let's drop off Tom and Jerry at the hamburger joint.

2. Fig. to give someone or a group a ride to some place. •

Can I drop you off somewhere in town?

I dropped off the kids at the party.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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