get the boot

present singular third person gets the boot · participle present getting the boot · past got the boot · UK participle past got the boot · US participle past gotten the boot

1. idiomaticTo be dismissed from employment.

   "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.

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

   1 more example

   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.

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

2. idiomaticTo be voted out, evicted, or otherwise made to leave.