lay aside
verb- To reserve (something, especially money) for future use; to save as a backup.
- To put (something) out of consideration.
- To put to one side, e.g. out of use.
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With a calm smile and a gentle wave of the hand, Monte Cristo signed to the distracted mother to lay aside her apprehensions; then, opening a casket that stood near, he drew forth a phial of Bohemian glass incrusted with gold, containing a liquid of the color of blood, of which he let fall a single drop on the child’s lips.
“Madame,” said Villefort, “you must lay aside these exalted ideas, which almost assume the appearance of madness.
“Count,” said the banker, “things are constantly occurring in the world to induce us to lay aside our most established opinions, or at all events to cause us to remodel them according to the change of circumstances, which may have placed affairs in a totally different light to that in which we at first viewed them.”
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