send someone packing

send someone packing
send someone packing
Fig. to send someone away; to dismiss someone, possibly rudely. •

I couldn't stand him anymore, so I sent him packing.

The maid proved to be so incompetent that I had to send her packing.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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