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• send someone about his — ● business …   Useful english dictionary

• send a person about his business — send a person away, dismiss someone …   English contemporary dictionary

• send one about one's business — {v. phr.} To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. * /When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business./ Compare: SEND ONE PACKING …   Dictionary of American idioms

• send one about one's business — {v. phr.} To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. * /When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business./ Compare: SEND ONE PACKING …   Dictionary of American idioms

• send\ one\ about\ one's\ business — v. phr. To dismiss someone summarily; tell one off. When Mrs. Atwater discovered that her daughter s French tutor was an ordinary fortune hunter, she sent him about his business. Compare: send one packing …   Словарь американских идиом

• send someone about his/her business — dated tell someone to go away …   Useful english dictionary

• send about one's business —    If you tell someone, in an irritated or unfriendly way, to go away, yousend them about their business.     An insurance company representative keeps calling on my mother, but I told her to send him about his business …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• send — /send/ verb past tense and past participle sent /sent/ 1 BY POST/RADIO ETC (T) to arrange for something to go or be taken to another place, especially by post: send sb a letter/message/card: Honestly, I get tired of sending Christmas cards. |… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• send — v. (past and past part. sent) 1 tr. a order or cause to go or be conveyed (send a message to headquarters; sent me a book; sends goods all over the world). b propel; cause to move (send a bullet; sent him flying). c cause to go or become (send… …   Useful english dictionary

• send — v 1. transmit, convey, deliver, direct; broadcast, televise, telecast, telegraph, radio, telegram; forward, pass along, mail, post, ship, remit; consign, intend for, address to. 2. delegate, depute, charge, assign, commission. 3. propel, cast,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• business — n. 1 one s regular occupation, profession, or trade. 2 a thing that is one s concern. 3 a a task or duty. b a reason for coming (what is your business?). 4 serious work or activity (get down to business). 5 derog. a an affair, a matter (sick of… …   Useful english dictionary