Send someone to the showers In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "send someone to the showers", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Julia Huong calendar 2022-02-15 10:02

Meaning of Send someone to the showers

Send someone to the showers American US informal verb phrase

To remove someone from a situation due to bad behavior or performance. Likened to an athlete had been taken out of a game and sent to the locker room (where one typically showers after the game is over).

After two players fought, the coaches sent them to the showers.

Jack performed so poorly that the coach sent him to the showers after the first fifteen minutes.

He was sent to the showers for arguing with the referee.

Other phrases about:

clean out

1. Make the inside of something clean or tidy

2. Spend so much money on something that one now has very little left

3. Take or use all the resource or money that a person or organization has

4. Remove parts or people to improve a group or organization

cut from (something)

1. To remove something from something else by cutting

2. To refuse to allow someone to do something on a team or other roster

3. To remove a portion of a creative work, such as a written work or a film by editing

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater
Bcareful to avoid losing important things or getting rid of them by mistake while disposing of worthless ones.
detach (someone or something) from (someone or something)

To separate someone/something from someone/something else.

denude (someone or something) of (something)

To take something away out of someone or something

Grammar and Usage of Send someone to the showers

Verb Forms

  • sending someone to the showers
  • sends someone to the showers
  • sent someone to the showers
  • to send someone to the showers

The verb "send" should be conjugated according to its tense.

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