throw sth off
— phrasal verb with throw uk/θrəʊ/us/θroʊ/verb threw, thrown
(CLOTHES)
If you throw off your clothes, you take them off quickly and carelessly:
They threw off their clothes and jumped in the sea.
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Not wearing or removing clothes
- altogether
- bare
- barefoot
- bareheaded
- birthday
- buff
- commando
- fling
- in shirtsleeves idiom
- in the buff idiom
- in the raw idiom
- in your birthday suit idiom
- in your stocking(ed) feet idiom
- shirtsleeve
- shuck
- shuck sth off
- slip
- slip out of sth
- streak
- streaker
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(ILLNESS)
to stop suffering from a cold or other illness that is not serious:
I can't seem to throw off this cold.
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Recovering from illness
- be on the mend idiom
- bounce
- bounce back
- clear (sth) up
- come round
- convalescence
- convalescent
- correct
- feel like a new woman/man idiom
- get over sth/sb
- heal
- hold
- lacunar
- mend
- new
- pull
- recuperate
- rehab
- rehabilitation
- rose
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