informal

give (someone) the boot - to stop employing someone.

Did she tell you why she got the boot?

• up your sleeve
• use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
• used to
• used to doing something
• used to do something
• used to something
• Use loaf.
• use something to good account
• use to good account
• use up
• use up something
• Use your loaf.
• usher in
• usher in something
• usher someone in
• vanish into thin air
• vanish off the face of the earth
• Variety is the spice of life.
• vent spleen
• vent your spleen
• verbal diarrhoea
• very much so
• very well
• vicious circle
• villain of the piece