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

Like Willy Loman, he’s enraged that his boss feels like he can eat the orange and then just throw away the peel — with impunity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 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

It lies just a stone's throw away from the glitzy district of Gangnam -- one of Seoul's best known and wealthiest neighbourhoods, synonymous with South Korea's rise as an economic and cultural powerhouse.

From Barron's • Jan. 16, 2026

Then I would throw away the pile and start a new one.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers