单词 | to get the boot |
释义 | > as lemmasto get the boot c. to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot: to ‘kick out’, dismiss, ‘sack’. So to get the boot. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > dismiss or discharge to put awaya1387 discharge1428 dismiss1477 to put out of wages1542 discard1589 to turn away1602 to put off1608 disemploy1619 to pay off1648 to pay off1651 to turn out1667 to turn off1676 quietus1688 strip1756 trundle1794 unshop1839 shopc1840 to lay off1841 sack1841 drop1845 to give (a person) the shoot1846 bag1848 swap1862 fire1879 to knock off1881 bounce1884 to give (a person) the pushc1886 to give (a person) the boot or the order of the boot1888 bump1899 spear1911 to strike (a medical practitioner, etc.) off the register1911 terminate1920 tramp1941 shitcan1961 pink slip1966 dehire1970 resize1975 to give a person his jotters1990 society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > dismiss or discharge > be dismissed or discharged to get the bag1804 to get the sack1825 swap1862 to get the boot1888 to take a walk1888 to get the run1889 to get (or have) the swap1890 to get the (big) bird1924 to get one's jotters1944 1888 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch xii. 215 There'll be the money to take over the Moat Farm and give that varmint Janter the boot. 1904 Minister's Gaz. Fashion Dec. 219/2 His vivacious accounts of ‘padding the hoof’, getting the ‘boot’, [etc.]. 1917 ‘Taffrail’ Sub ii. 62 An habitual slacker..generally got the Order of the Boot at the end of his third term. 1927 R. A. Freeman Certain Dr. Thorndyke i. ii. 22 If you hadn't come I should have got the order of the boot to a certainty. < as lemmas |
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