get the boot
verb1
Idiomatic To be dismissed from employment.
- "Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag." "And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return," said Lord John.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Tony Parsons has claimed that he quit before he "got the boot" from the Daily Mirror, after former colleagues expressed their anger over remarks that he made suggesting he had defected to the Sun because he needed to support his family.2013 September 16, Lisa O'Carroll, quoting Tony Parsons, “Tony Parsons: I quit the Mirror before I got the boot”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
2
Idiomatic To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave.
- Synonyms
- get the chop, get the sack, get the elbow, get the walking papers
- Related terms
- order of the boot