to throw overboard
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4.8
- phrasal verb
- /θroʊ ˈoʊvərˌbɔrd/
- NSFW
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tirar por la borda
- They threw the tea overboard.
- throw his body overboard
I think it's just a descendant of pregnant African slave women who were thrown overboard and it's about them.
- I think it's just a descendant of pregnant African slave women who were thrown overboard and it's about them.
Examples
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We get in the boat, you take me out to sea, and throw me overboard?
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I'm gonna throw you overboard.
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Go now, or I'll throw you overboard.
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They throw his body overboard.
Fiction book (2001) -
You are lucky I don't throw you overboard, for the sharks!
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Piper threw Melina overboard because she wanted her belt!
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Brown's team started taking on water, and he was thrown overboard before he could even grab a bucket to bail himself out.
Blog text (8) -
When the bottle was empty, he threw it overboard and curiously watched it bob up and down in the dull green waves.
Fiction book (2002) -
As the ship lay in Boston Harbor, a party of the colonists, dressed as Red Indians, boarded the vessel, behaved very rudely, and threw all the tea overboard.
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The crew decided to throw overboard the heavy cargo to lighten the ship.
Synonyms
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3.1
To throw something forcefully or carelessly
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal combination of 'throw' (propel) + 'overboard' (from a vessel into water) yields the image of tossing something off a boat, which transparently suggests discarding or getting rid of it. However, the extension from the concrete maritime image to the broader metaphorical sense 'reject/eliminate' requires an inferential step and some contextual exposure, so it is not fully predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Throw overboard comes from ships where sailors would throw things overboard by tossing them off the side into the sea. That's why it means 'to throw someone or something from a boat into the water'.