toss someone or something away

toss someone or something away
toss someone or something away
to throw someone or something away; to discard someone or something. •

You can't just toss me away! I'm your husband!

She tossed away her husband of twenty years.

She tossed the cigarette away.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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