sling one's hook
verb1
Colloquial, Derogatory, Idiomatic To leave, depart, especially if forced to do so.
- ‘I don’t want none of your apologies, and I don’t want none of you neither; I don’t like the looks of you, and so I tell you. Before I let anybody into my house you’ll have to sling your hook.’1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
- Placing his hand on the doorknob he could hear his father's indignant voice: "If he's no job he can damn well sling his hook, he's not living under my roof free gratis, I want him out."2005, Kevin Muir, Run For Freedom:
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- Landlady: O'Brien? He don't live here any more. Not lived here for months. I made him sling his hook. Never paid his lodgings.2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3: