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get rid of
shed your clothes
he shed his image as a pushy boss - make the last row of stitches when knitting
How To Use cast off In A Sentence
- In the 1890s, women some women found they could cast off their impractical and uncomfortable clothing in favour of pantaloons.
- She tried to cast off her upbringing.
- Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf.
- She's cast off three boy-friends in a month.
- The shrouds and back-stays are first cast off, and the mast-head got as far forward as nearly to touch the fore-part of the partners, by the runners and tackles or burtons of the mizenmast.
- The snake cast off its old skin.
- The fisherman cast off the rope and set the boat adrift.
- By 09.30 we had cast off and were heading down-river.
- The play was virtually unseen for 200 years, cast off for smuttiness and "perversity".
- You know, The Wah broke his arm a couple of years ago - they took the cast off him quite quickly, but then he had to wear a daggy sling. Cheeseburger Gothic » Under the knife.