send one about one's business

send one about one's business
send one about one's business
to send someone away, usually in an unfriendly way. •

Is that annoying man on the telephone again? Please send him about his business.

Ann, I can't clean up the house with you hanging around. I'm going to have to send you about your business.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • send one about one's business — {v. phr.} To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. * /When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business./ Compare: SEND ONE PACKING …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • send one about one's business — {v. phr.} To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. * /When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business./ Compare: SEND ONE PACKING …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • send\ one\ about\ one's\ business — v. phr. To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business. Compare: send one packing …   Словарь американских идиом

  • send about one's business —    If you tell someone, in an irritated or unfriendly way, to go away, yousend them about their business.     An insurance company representative keeps calling on my mother, but I told her to send him about his business …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • send one packing — {v. phr.} To fire someone summarily. * /When the boss caught Smith stealing from the cash register, he sent him packing./ Compare: SEND ONE ABOUT ONE S BUSINESS …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • send one packing — {v. phr.} To fire someone summarily. * /When the boss caught Smith stealing from the cash register, he sent him packing./ Compare: SEND ONE ABOUT ONE S BUSINESS …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • send\ one\ packing — v. phr. To fire someone summarily. When the boss caught Smith stealing from the cash register, he sent him packing. Compare: send one about one s business …   Словарь американских идиом

  • send about one's business — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. send away, discharge, get rid of, dispatch; see dismiss 1 …   English dictionary for students

  • send about one's business — phrasal : to dismiss summarily or peremptorily …   Useful english dictionary

  • business — n. 1 one s regular occupation, profession, or trade. 2 a thing that is one s concern. 3 a a task or duty. b a reason for coming (what is your business?). 4 serious work or activity (get down to business). 5 derog. a an affair, a matter (sick of… …   Useful english dictionary

  • send — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. dispatch, forward, transmit, broadcast; impel, drive; slang, excite, move (see excitement). See transfer, propulsion. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To dispatch] Syn. transmit, forward, convey, advance,… …   English dictionary for students

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