bum's rush
Related to bum's rush: in short order, Much obliged, to no avail, run errands
bum's rush
1. A hasty and forceful removal from a place. Likened to the ejection of a vagrant (a "bum") from a place. We got the bum's rush out of the sports bar after we started rooting for the home team's rival.
2. A peremptory or abrupt dismissal, due to a failed or rejected plan, idea, or performance. I brought up the possibility of reducing managerial pay to other employees, but that idea quickly got the bum's rush.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
*bum's rush
hurrying someone out of a place. (As someone might quickly escort a vagrant from a fancy restaurant. *Typically: get ~; give someone ~.) The young customer in the jewelry store was getting the bum's rush until he pulled out an enormous roll of bills. Bill got the bum's rush at the restaurant because he didn't have a tie on.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
bum's rush
Forcible ejection, abrupt dismissal. For example, When Henry started shouting, the bouncer gave him the bum's rush, or Within hours of being fired, Alice was given the bum's rush. This idiom uses bum in the sense of "a vagrant or tramp." [Slang; early 1900s]
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
bum's rush
A forcible ejection. The “classical” bum's rush was a bartender or bouncer lifting the deadbeat or intruder by the back of his shirt or jacket collar and the seat of his pants and then throwing him through the tavern door. The phrase, which came into vogue around the turn of the 20th century, survives in its “throw the bum out!” incarnation.
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Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
- bum's rush, to give/get the
- give somebody/get the bum's rush
- get the bum's rush
- give (one) the bum's rush
- give someone the bum's rush
- have a foothold
- have a foothold in (something)
- defect to
- defect to (something)
- ditch (some place)