slough : Idioms & Phrases

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Slough grass

  • noun North American cordgrass having leaves with dry membranous margins and glumes with long awns
    freshwater cordgrass; Spartina pectinmata; prairie cordgrass.
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  • (Bot.), a name in the Mississippi valley for grasses of the genus Muhlenbergia; called also drop seed, and nimble Will.
Webster 1913

slough of despond

  • noun (formal) extreme depression
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slough off

  • verb discard as undesirable
    • the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers
  • verb separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
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