throw away

Idioms  

1. Also, . Dispose of, discard, as in This coat is too good to throw away , or Did you throw out the rest of the milk? or She tossed out all his old letters . [First half of 1500s]

2. Waste, fail to use, as in She's thrown away her inheritance on all kinds of foolish enterprises , or He's thrown away his chances for an engineering job . [Mid-1600s]

3. Also, throw out . Utter or perform in an offhand, seemingly careless way, as in He threw away the news that their summer cottage had been broken into , or She threw out some suggestions for changing the bylaws . [First half of 1900s]

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Example Sentences

His mother, Melanie, who was not his legal guardian and was heavily influenced by conspiracy theories, told him to throw away his passport.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

What we throw away doesn’t take long to resurface, sometimes in the form of a witty, wise and gripping memoir.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

A stone’s throw away from the Roxbury warehouse was a Mexican bakery serving delicacies like conchas and empanadas.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2026

But Uber’s experience is that it often has to throw away an entire process and rebuild from the ground up to truly tap the enterprise power of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

She had wanted to throw away all the rules and eat up the world.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray