drop sb/sth like a hot potato
informalto quickly stop being involved with someone or something because you stop liking that person or thing or you think they will cause problems for you:
He dropped the plan like a hot potato when he realized how much it would cost him.
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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
- 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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