throw overboard

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Verb	1.	throw overboard - lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime; "you've forfeited your right to name your successor"; "forfeited property" forfeit, give up, waive, forgo, forego abandon - forsake, leave behind; "We abandoned the old car in the empty parking lot" lapse - let slip; "He lapsed his membership"
	2.	throw overboard - throw from a boat deep-six throw - propel through the air; "throw a frisbee"

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To throw over

Either I must throw overboard all my old values of money and look upon it as something to be flung about wastefully, or I must throw overboard my comradeship with these men whose peculiar quirks made them like strong drink.

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

So jest you throw overboard any idea of her not liking you.

Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

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