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Throw out   /θroʊ aʊt/   Listen
Throw out

verb
1.
Force to leave or move out.  Synonyms: expel, kick out.
3.
Remove from a position or office.  Synonyms: boot out, drum out, expel, kick out, oust.
4.
Bring forward for consideration or acceptance.  Synonym: advance.
5.
Cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration.  Synonym: dismiss.



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"Throw out" Quotes from Famous Books



... but it was impossible he could, when people had worked themselves into an enthusiasm of offering fifty, ay, fifty guineas for a ticket to hear him. Well! we are sunk and deplorable in many points, yet not absolutely gone, when history and eloquence throw out such shoots! I thought I had outlived my country; I am glad not to leave it desperate. Adieu, ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole, V4 • Horace Walpole

... she exclaimed, flitting up to Nick. "P'raps you don't remember me, but I'm maid to Mrs. May, and 'twas to me you gave that beautiful bag you said you'd throw out o' window if I didn't take it. Ye don't mind if ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... various inflammatory affections, especially in opthalmia, or diseases of the eye, and chilblains. To prepare pyrothonide, take a handful of cloth, old or new, place it in a shallow basin, set fire to it, moving it about, so that the basin do not become too hot; after the combustion is finished, throw out the ashes; at the bottom of the vessel will be found a semi-aqueous, semi-oleaginous product, of a reddish brown colour, and possessing a pungent odour. Pour upon this 5 oz. of cold water, which will dissolve it entirely, forming the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 13, No. 362, Saturday, March 21, 1829 • Various

... If we throw out all the smaller materials used for point-laying, and it seems advisable so to do, we still have left smooth pebbles from one half to three fourths of an inch in diameter, and shells of any univalve, ...
— Froebel's Gifts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... school of idolaters, who will out and out swear by everything, and as though by necessity, at the same time, a school of studious detractors, who will suspiciously question everything, or throw out suggestions of disparagement, is at all events, a proof of greatness, the countersign of undoubted genius, and an assurance of lasting fame. R. L. Stevenson has certainly secured this. Time will tell what of virtue ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp


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