put aside
verb- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, aside.
- To save or keep (something) to be used at a later time. · I try to put a few dollars aside each week, just in case I need money in an emergency.
- To ignore or intentionally disregard (something), temporarily or permanently, so that more important things can occupy one's attention. · Let's put our differences aside for the moment, and get this project finished.
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“So we can put aside all idea of the man having been drowned in crossing.”
Villefort, pale and agitated, ran to the window, put aside the curtain, and saw him pass, cool and collected, by two or three ill-looking men at the corner of the street, who were there, perhaps, to arrest a man with black whiskers, and a blue frock-coat, and hat with broad brim.
“I will remember thee in my next kill, and put aside the head for thee alone, O best of kites!”
My objections to the marriage were not merely those which I last night acknowledged to have required the utmost force of passion to put aside in my own case; the want of connection could not be so great an evil to my friend as to me.
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