give someone the boot
to fire someone
TRANSLATION
give someone the boot = jmdn. entlassen bzw. rausschmeißen --- GOOGLE INDEX give someone the boot: approximately 9,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Why Peter Dolan GOT THE BOOT
(BusinessWeek - News Headline)
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Bear in mind that many senior Liberal Democrats had concerns about Charles Kennedy's leadership for years before they finally GAVE HIM THE BOOT.
(Guardian newspaper)
(BusinessWeek - News Headline)
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Bear in mind that many senior Liberal Democrats had concerns about Charles Kennedy's leadership for years before they finally GAVE HIM THE BOOT.
(Guardian newspaper)
Did you
know?
give someone the boot
idiom
- to stop employing someone
- to end a romantic relationship with someone
(Cambridge Idioms Dictionary)
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Redford gets the boot
Before he became a Hollywood legend, actor Robert Redford needed his dad's help to get a job at Standard Oil. Although he would later reach great heights on the screen, acting like a good employee was one role he never mastered As Harvey Mackay writes in his 2004 book "Fired Up!", Redford served as a "roustabout," an unskilled labourer who did little jobs around the oil rigs, until he was discovered sleeping in an oil tank he was assigned to clean.
Instead of giving him the boot on the spot, the company put Redford on probation and moved him to a bottle-washing plant where he drove a forklift. However, he got bored and started doing forklift tricks. One day it literally all came crashing down when Redford took a corner too quickly and overturned his forklift full of bottles. Redford told Mackay that, "I knew it was the end of my career in that business."
(adapted from CNN)
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SYNONYMS
give someone the axe, kick someone out, show someone the door, give someone their pink slip, give someone their walking papers
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"After Bob got the boot, he started his own company and became rich."
idiom
- to stop employing someone
- to end a romantic relationship with someone
(Cambridge Idioms Dictionary)
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Redford gets the boot
Before he became a Hollywood legend, actor Robert Redford needed his dad's help to get a job at Standard Oil. Although he would later reach great heights on the screen, acting like a good employee was one role he never mastered As Harvey Mackay writes in his 2004 book "Fired Up!", Redford served as a "roustabout," an unskilled labourer who did little jobs around the oil rigs, until he was discovered sleeping in an oil tank he was assigned to clean.
Instead of giving him the boot on the spot, the company put Redford on probation and moved him to a bottle-washing plant where he drove a forklift. However, he got bored and started doing forklift tricks. One day it literally all came crashing down when Redford took a corner too quickly and overturned his forklift full of bottles. Redford told Mackay that, "I knew it was the end of my career in that business."
(adapted from CNN)
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SYNONYMS
give someone the axe, kick someone out, show someone the door, give someone their pink slip, give someone their walking papers
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"After Bob got the boot, he started his own company and became rich."
