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throw a party
Put on or hold a social gathering, as in They're throwing a party to introduce their nephew to the neighbors, or She threw a party every Saturday night. [Colloquial; first half of 1900s]
Example Sentences
Aldean knew that there was more than one way to throw a party, noting that coastal parties in “martini bars” were not much different then “buying beer at Amoco” and cranking “Kraco speakers to that country radio.”
The Disneyland Resort is turning 70 in July, and it has never missed an opportunity to throw a party — especially one rooted in nostalgia.
Washington’s views were so blinkered by the free-market dogma that, as Russians cast their ballots in the election, Vice President Al Gore and Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott flew to Moscow, expecting to throw a party at the embassy celebrating Gaidar’s victory.
This just became the latest in a series of controversies that had marred his term: the year before, he had fired his son who was employed as his executive secretary after it emerged that he had misused his position to throw a party at a prime ministerial residence.
With two new albums involving both styles arriving imminently, he arranged to throw a party, and invited dozens of friends and colleagues to play.
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