To be rid of
| to be free or delivered from. |
See also: Rid
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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"By no means," replied the Fox; "pray do not molest them." "How is this?' said the Hedgehog; "do you not want to be rid of them?' "No," returned the Fox, "for these flies which you see are full of blood, and sting me but little, and if you rid me of these which are already satiated, others more hungry will come in their place, and will drink up all the blood I have left."
I would urge them more myself, but that I am impatient to be rid of him, as Mainwaring comes within half an hour.
WELL, I have never been more glad to be rid of something since I ditched an ex in the late eighties.
It's time for gay men to be rid of a drastic misconception about their sex lives, a misconception they've inherited from straight people eager to apply gender stereotypes to sex between two males.
And that's an evil thing he did, and to be rid of that evil would be no bad thing.
She agreed there were times when she "wanted to be rid of him."
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- To be on one's back
- To be on short commons
- To be on speaking terms
- To be on the anvil
- To be on the carpet
- To be on the defensive
- To be on the fence
- To be on the mending hand
- To be on the move
- To be on the qui vive
- To be on the rack
- To be on the stretch
- To be on the tenters
- To be on the watch
- To be one flesh
- To be one's own man
- To be one's own master
- To be one's own mistress
- To be out at the heels
- To be out of her reckoning
- To be out of one's head
- To be pleased in
- To be pleased to do a thing
- to be precise
- To be reported
- To be rid of
- To be seized of
- To be shot of
- to be sure
- To be sweet on
- To be taken aback
- To be taken in the manner
- To be tied to a wife's apron strings
- To be turned of
- To be under a cloud
- To be under hatches
- To be under the mahogany
- To be under way
- To be up in
- To be up to
- To be upon one's good behavior
- To be upon the bones of
- To be upsides with
- To be well off
- To be with child
- To be without rebuke
- To be wrapped up in
- To bear a hand
- To bear a loss
- To bear against
- To bear away
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- To Be Perfectly Honest
- To be pleased in
- To be pleased to do a thing
- to be precise
- to be precise
- to be precise
- to be precise
- To Be Printed
- To Be Produced
- To Be Proposed
- To Be Provided/Published
- to be put out to grass/pasture
- To Be Quite Frank
- To Be Quite Freaking Honest
- To Be Quite Honest
- To Be Read
- to be reckoned with
- To Be Recommended
- To Be Recorded
- To Be Released
- To Be Renamed
- To be reported
- To be reported
- To Be Rescheduled
- To Be Rescinded
- To Be Rescinded Date
- To Be Resolved
- To Be Returned
- To Be Reviewed
- To Be Revised
- To be rid of
- to be right up one's alley
- to be safe
- to be said for
- to be scared silly/stiff/to death
- To Be Scheduled
- To be seized of
- To Be Selected
- To Be Selected Later
- To be shot of
- to be sick as a dog
- to be sitting on cloud nine
- to be sneezed at
- to be sniffed at
- To Be Specified
- To Be Stated
- To Be Stopped
- To Be Supplied
- to be sure
- to be sure
- to be sure
- to be sure
- To be sweet on
- To be taken aback
- To be taken in the manner
- to be taken napping
- to be tarred with the same brush
- To Be Tested
- To Be the Best
- to be tickled pink/to death
- To be tied to a wife's apron strings
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