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bum's rush
noun
- forcible and swift ejection from a place:
When they began to cause a disturbance, they were given the bum's rush.
- any rude or abrupt dismissal:
He gave the pesky salesman the bum's rush.
bum's rush
noun
- forcible ejection, as from a gathering
- rapid dismissal, as of an idea
Word History and Origins
Origin of bum's rush1
Idioms and Phrases
Forcible ejection, abrupt dismissal. For example, When Henry started shouting, the bouncer gave him the bum's rush , or Within hours of being fired, Alice was given the bum's rush . This idiom uses bum in the sense of “a vagrant or tramp.” [ Slang ; early 1900s]Example Sentences
The ’70s loved a beautiful loser, like James Garner’s Jim Rockford, the ex-con private eye whom the world gave the bum’s rush no matter how many cases he cracked.
Certainly, it was a cheeky move, but the man didn’t deserve the bum’s rush.
Or relocating to a parking garage after getting the bum’s rush from the Capitol.
It is no small thing to attempt the bum’s rush on an elected president who survived one impeachment easily but who is weakened now as a lame duck.
The Trump administration has already given his Republican allies in Florida the bum’s rush by, thus far, shortchanging the state in its request for federal funding to restore the Everglades.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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