To remove, do away with.

transitive. To rid or free oneself from (a restraint, burden, etc.); to get rid of, shake off; to repudiate or reject the authority of. Also: to…

To do away with (a requirement, need, or necessity); to render unnecessary or superfluous.

intransitive. to down with: to put or throw (something) down; to have done with. Obsolete.

Used in many phrases and idiomatic expressions merely as a variant (more emphatic or expressive of greater violence) of throw or cast (see esp. cast…

to fob off To put or shift off (a thing) by deceit or pretence; to get rid of, or set aside by a trick.

To discard, get rid of; originally in shoot that hat, etc., as a mild imprecation. Also to shoot trouble = trouble-shoot v. at trouble-shooter, n.…