give someone the old heave-ho

present singular third person gives someone the old heave-ho · participle present giving someone the old heave-ho · past gave someone the old heave-ho · participle past given someone the old heave-ho

1. UKalternativeidiomaticAlternative form of give someone the heave-ho.

   So, she gave him the old heave ho!

   2003, Garrison Flint, The Case of the Twisted Twins Murders: A Raymond Masters Mystery, G. F. Hutchison Press, →ISBN, page 89

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   Possibly a lot of them gained entry because there were so many other strange bees in the hive, but once they started to load up and run, the natives joined with the old ones and gave them the old heave-ho.

   1947, Gleanings in Bee Culture v.75, A. I. Root Co., page 467

   Now I won't have to explain to her what sort of friend you really were and why I gave you the old heave-ho.

   1968, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., “Fortitude”, in Playboy

   I think maybe that's why they gave me the old heave-ho from the convent.

   1985, William M. Hoffman, As Is, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., published 1999, →ISBN, page 13

   The least she could do was crawl back into her severely stylish shell, so she wouldn't look pitiful when he gave her the old heave-ho.

   1997, Linda Howard, Shades of Twilight, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 156

   Synonyms: give the axe, give the elbow, give someone the boot