shape up or ship out

Shape up or ship out: You've got work to do.

Shape up or ship out: There are not many free agents among your group.

Her behavior had become unacceptable, and I told her to shape up or ship out."

He told Dr. D. to shape up or ship out.

"He's our properly appointed superior officer, and if he has different ideas from what we're used to, we can either shape up or ship out.

This means the Chinese Communist Party is going to have to back off and shape up or ship out.

Ed Miliband needs to shape up or ship out.

Max's heart was rattling like a full set of dishes when he told Leigh-Cheri that she must shape up or ship out.

THERE comes a time in every sofa's life when it has to get shaped up or shipped out.

"Shape up or ship out, Mentia," he said gruffly.

He at least should have been confronted about these beliefs, told to cease and desist, and to shape up or ship out."

"I always told you, Jerry, to either shape up or ship out," General Bellmon said.

Shape Up or Ship Out: Leyland, you earned yourself one more season in the dugout.

The song describes Braxton realizing that her lover means the world to her, but he had better shape up or ship out.

"I'll start by drafting up a memo for you to fire off to the Joint Chiefs: 'Shape up or ship out!"

When the film sticks to comic anecdotes, before it starts telling the audience to shape up or ship out, "Traffic Jam" has a number of diverting moments.

Shape Up or Ship Out, Beetle Bailey (No. 9) (1974)

This wretched bunch is being told to shape up or ship out, as the Clinton Government withdraws from the old Democratic tradition of looking charitably on life's losers.

It is safe to say that Mr. Toledano is the hero of this house, and Mr. Klein will have to shape up or ship out.

One important department, we understood, had been completely taken over by a clique of "social" art historians, who dictated a hard line ("shape up or ship out") to faculty and students alike.

In a stark departure from character, the Giants co-owner Wellington Mara delivered a brief but powerful message to the players on Wednesday - shape up or ship out.

"I will give them my final word: shape up or ship out," said Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, himself a former police lieutenant colonel who is now a telecommunications tycoon.

The idiom shape up or ship out, which is like saying improve your behavior or leave if you don't, might be said by an employer or supervisor to an employee, but not to other people.

In September 2010, Cele made comments regarding the SAPS, telling them to "shape up or ship out", and saying "when you walk down the street, people must envy your body."

Shape up or ship out: The 29-game improvement was the biggest in the National League since the 1999 Diamondbacks improved by 35 games, but history has shown that teams which improve so much, often struggle the next year.