get the boot

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

get the boot (third-person singular simple present gets the boot, present participle getting the boot, simple past got the boot, past participle (UK) got the boot or (US) gotten the boot)

1. (idiomatic) To be dismissed from employment.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     "Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag." "And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return," said Lord John.

   • 2013 September 16, Lisa O'Carroll, quoting Tony Parsons, “Tony Parsons: I quit the Mirror before I got the boot”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Tony Parsons has claimed that he quit before he "got the boot" from the Daily Mirror, after former colleagues expressed their anger over remarks that he made suggesting he had defected to the Sun because he needed to support his family.

2. (idiomatic) To be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave.

Synonyms

• get the chop
• get the sack
• get the elbow
• get the walking papers

Translations

to be dismissed

• Finnish: saada kenkää, saada potkut
• Irish: bata agus bóthar a fháil

to be voted off

• Finnish: saada lähteä

See also

• order of the boot