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.
Categories: children {informal} {v.}
Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms
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