be given the boot

They know that one bad game is quite enough of an excuse for being given the boot.

One crew was given the boot halfway through the show.

So, no one at the club told him that in a couple of weeks hence he was going to be given the boot.

More than two centuries have passed since the British crown was given the boot.

They've been given the boot or they do it to themselves, out of shame."

This column will change your life: Should memory boxes be given the boot?

"Yes; I was given the boot, really, on medical grounds, with a full salary."

"I want the audience to care about whether Jonathan is going to be given the boot - or be allowed to continue," he said.

Sergeant Nottingham were given the boot and retired on a government pension.

Should have been given the boot ages ago.

But chairman Tony Lewis denied last night he had been given the boot.

The last Tory government gave us the recession of 1990-92 and were given the boot, bigtime, in 1997.

Tom DeMoss joined the project in 1979 (after the first team had been given the boot).

There's a stigma attached to being given the boot but she felt stupid pretending she'd decided to pack in a great job.

He had this load of dead-weights working for him, old lasses that should have been given the boot years ago.

A Channel 4 spokesperson stated: "It was only time before some were given the boot.

This Retief creature was given the boot from his diplomatic order not fiftyglansago."

Lobo should be given the boot too.

Unfortunately, the newly formed Blaze were given the boot as they lost to the Arizona Rattlers with a final score of 57-34.

Plus, Cheryl Cole is given the boot from the US X Factor.

Having joined the league despite not having a team organization or player roster, Houston was dropped when Oklahoma City was given the boot.

One is this article and the other is about Cheryl Cole being given the boot from the USA 'X-factor'.

In the office of the school's administrator there are references to William, who has what's described as "a tendency toward breaking and entering," for which he's being given the boot.

I've heard that no one gets fired without secretly hoping for the liberation, but that sounds like the kind of pronouncement you make before you've been given the boot.

If this ideaof mine doesn't work, he can just shrug and explain that I was given the boot and am no longer affiliatedwith the CDT.