give someone the heave-ho
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give someone the heave-ho (third-person singular simple present gives someone the heave-ho, present participle giving someone the heave-ho, simple past gave someone the heave-ho, past participle given someone the heave-ho)
- (idiomatic, Britain) To fire, expel or break up with someone.
- I'm looking for work again because they gave me the heave-ho.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
- I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man.
- (baseball) To eject a player or manager from the game.
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