shot to the curb

shot to the curb

1. slang Discarded, abandoned, or dismissed. Nearly 200 employees were shot to the curb as the company tried to compensate for another year of low sales. When I found out my friends had been lots of things without me, it just felt like I had been shot to the curb.
2. slang Rendered broken, ruined, or inoperable. My nerves have been completely shot to the curb since the car accident. Our plans were shot to the curb when the boss announced that the budget was being cut in half.
See also: curb, shot
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

shot to the curb

mod. without money or a place to live; living in the gutter; down and out. (Alluding to being on the streets.) I’m totally out of bills, man. Shot to the curb.
See also: curb, shot
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • be kicked to the curb
  • curb
  • get kicked to the curb
  • step off the curb
  • go down the toilet
  • go down the drain
  • go down the chute
  • obtainium
  • obtanium
  • on the chopping block
References in periodicals archive
"My students would come up to me and say these strange things, like, 'I couldn't turn in my homework because I was shot to the curb,'" Frey says.
A brief inquiry revealed that "shot to the curb" can mean anything from hung over to down-and-out.
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