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freeze out

freeze out {v.}, {informal}

To force out or keep from a share or part in something by unfriendly or dishonest treatment.

The other boys froze John out of the club.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[freeze over] {v.} To become covered with ice. * /The children wanted the lake to freeze over so they could ice-skate./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[freeze] See: [BLOOD RUNS COLD] or [BLOOD FREEZES]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[vein] See: [FREEZE ONE'S BLOOD] or [FREEZE THE BLOOD IN ONE'S VEINS], [FREEZE ONE'S VEINS]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[freeze one's blood] See: [BLOOD RUNS COLD]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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