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send down
verb
- to expel from a university, esp permanently
- informal.to send to prison
Idioms and Phrases
Suspend or dismiss from a university, principally a British one. For example, He's done very poorly ever since he was sent down from Oxford . [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
And when basketball takes a break in the summer, he will still be tempted to pick up a tennis racket and send down a few serves.
When you wring out this more powerful sponge, it sends down heavier rains than before.
Canada鈥檚 star was David Winckworth, who made 12 with the bat before sending down a few round-arm thunderbolts of his own, taking four wickets as the Americans were dismissed for 64.
We had a cunning little dipper we could send down into the pan on a length of picture wire.
This is done using a specific type of satellite called an altimeter, which sends down radar pulses to very precisely measure the height of the ice surface.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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