get the elbow
get the elbow
1. To be spurned, jilted, or rejected by someone, especially a lover or romantic interest. Samantha has had a broken heart ever since she got the elbow from Rebecca.
2. To be summarily dismissed or ousted from employment; to be fired. The new accountant got the elbow after a miscalculation cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
See also: elbow, get
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- get the air
- not a peep from/out of (someone)
- have it going on
- (way) past caring
- past caring
- pour (one's) heart out (to someone)
- pour heart out to
- pour out (one's) heart (to someone)
- pour out one's heart
- pour your heart out