see the back of sb/sth
UKIf you are pleased to see the back of someone or something, you are pleased that you no longer have to be involved with him, her, or it:
The hotel staff were glad to see the back of such a difficult guest.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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