chuck (someone or something) overboard
chuck (someone or something) overboard
To dispose or get rid of someone or something, especially in an improper manner. Likened to throwing someone or something over the side of a ship. In a major corporate shake-up, most of the company's upper-level management was chucked overboard at the end of the fiscal year. I know it's a really bad habit, but we just open the window and chuck our rubbish overboard when traveling on a long car journey.
See also: chuck, overboard
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be/have done with somebody/something
- be in line with (someone or something)
- better of
- beware of
- beware of (someone or something)
- (someone or something) promises well
- begin with
- begin with (someone or something)
- bird has flown, the
- be rough on (someone or something)