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It means to punish someone, by getting rid of them eg kicking them out or no longer talkin to them, for doing something wrong. It comes from the action of grabbing a dog by the ear and throwing it out of the house when it had done something wrong.
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What is an example sentence with the idiom 'throw the book at him'?
"Throw the book at him" IS a sentence.
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I believe the idiom you're looking for is "You can't trust a person further than you can throw them". The meaning is meant that you cannot trust someone because you can't throw them very far.
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improvise, wing it, play it by ear
You throw away the outside and cook the inside then you eat the outside and throw away the inside what did you eat?
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