send down

verb

to expel from a university, esp permanently
informal.
to send to prison

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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]

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Example Sentences

Bow Street has now been informed, and will send down by to-night's coach, but I do not think they will make much of the job.

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And what particular fugitive would you like to send down it now?

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Put wet cloths round his head for the present; I will go and fetch my colleague, and I will send down some ice from the hospital.

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Did he not send down to parliament that message which denounced his queen a criminal?

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As the tide runs out, the little ditches send down runnels of clear water.

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