"send someone packing" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-send someone packing.ogg Forms: sends someone packing [present, singular, third-person], sending someone packing [participle, present], sent someone packing [participle, past], sent someone packing [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|send<,,sent> someone packing}} send someone packing (third-person singular simple present sends someone packing, present participle sending someone packing, simple past and past participle sent someone packing)
  1. (idiomatic) To expel, eject, or dismiss someone; to send away, chase off, or force out. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: hand someone his hat, send about one's business Coordinate_terms: send someone to the showers Translations (expel, eject, or dismiss someone): lähettää matkoihinsa (Finnish), envoyer promener (French), envoyer balader (French), envoyer paître (French), envoyer sur les roses (French), espellere (Italian), 追い出す (oidasu) (Japanese), 解雇する (kaiko suru) (Japanese), 首にする (kubi ni suru) (Japanese), 追い払う (oiharau) (Japanese), выпрова́живать (vyprováživatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), вы́проводить (výprovoditʹ) [perfective] (Russian), гнать в три ше́и (gnatʹ v tri šéi) (english: forcefully) [imperfective] (Russian), mandar a paseo (Spanish), poner de patitas en la calle (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "expel, eject, or dismiss someone",
      "word": "mandar a paseo"
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