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- verb idiomatic To
discard , especiallyinadvertently , somethingvaluable while in theprocess of removing or rejecting somethingunwanted .
Etymologies
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From a German proverb that dates to 1512. First recorded by Thomas Murner in his satire Narrenbeschwörung. First appeared in English when Thomas Carlyle translated it and used it in an 1849 essay on slavery.
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