send sb down
(COLLEGE) UK old-fashioned — phrasal verb with send /send/ verb [T] (sent, sent)Definition
› to ask someone to leave a college or university without finishing their course because they have done something wrong: She was sent down from Oxford for taking drugs.Punishing someone by sending them somewhere elseEvicting and forcing to leave
(Definition of send sb down (COLLEGE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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