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turf out

verb

  1. informal.
    tr, adverb to throw out or dismiss; eject

    we were turfed out of the club

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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When Labour were turfed out in 2010, it took them 14 years and three leaders before they won again in July.

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Now, Labour has brought forward a strengthened version of the bill, including an outright ban on tenants being turfed out for no reason by landlords using a Section 21 notice.

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And rather than trying to please all the people all of the time, they chose affluent leafy constituencies where they could try to turf out Tory MPs.

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"It must have been an argument of some consequence because it resulted in you being turfed out of the lodge that you were staying in," said the judge.

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Ken Skates believes helping to "turf out the Tories" in Westminster will be "vital" for the leadership winner.

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