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send down
verb
- to expel from a university, esp permanently
- informal.to send to prison
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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]Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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