4 Metaphors for despatched

Though despatch be the soul of business, yet he who outruns his own feet comes to the ground, and makes no despatch,unless it be of himself.

Yes, a despatch is not a Bill.

A report, probably unfounded, was spread that Cromwell granted him his life, but the despatch was waylaid, and detained, or destroyed by the Cavaliers, who bore in remembrance Love's former hostility to the royal cause.

The despatch of these expeditions was a three-cornered battle of wits.

4 Metaphors for  despatched