sweep aside

present singular third person sweeps aside · participle present sweeping aside · participle past swept aside · past swept aside

1. To push or brush to the side.

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   On this section, the high five-span masonry viaduct over the Whiteadder Water, at Chirnside, withstood the flood, but four of the six spans of the bridge carrying the siding to the nearby paper mill were demolished, and the track, with the sleepers still in position, was swept aside, on to the river bank.

   1949 January and February, “Notes and News: Damage to Branch Lines”, in Railway Magazine, pages 64–65

2. idiomaticTo overcome an obstacle with little effort.

   Wolves swept aside Championship outfit Doncaster at Molineux to earn a place in the fourth round of the FA Cup.

   2011 January 18, “Wolverhampton 5 - 0 Doncaster”, in BBC

3. idiomaticTo ignore, brush off.