pack off

[pack off] {v.}, {informal} To send away; dismiss abruptly.

/When an Englishman got in trouble long ago, his family would pack him off to Australia or some other distant land./

/Jane couldn't really get started on her homework until she had packed the children off to school./

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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