get the boot (informal)
To be dismissed
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Main Entry: ↑boot
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informal be dismissed from one's job
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be given the ˈboot | get the ˈboot idiom
(informal) to be told that you must leave your job or that a relationship you are having with sb is over
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He should have been given the boot years ago.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.