be scattered to the four winds
literaryIf a group of things or people are scattered to the four winds, they go or are sent to different places that are far away from each other:
It was the finest collection of paintings in Denmark, but during the last war it was broken up and scattered to the four winds.
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Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- cast sb/sth out
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- free sb from/of sth
- haemodialysis
- 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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