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Meaning: (idiomatic)To bedismissedfromemployment.1912,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Lost World[…], London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC:"Put it down in your diary, my young friend, and send it to your rag." "And be ready toget thetoe-end of the editorialbootin return," said Lord John.2013September 16, Lisa O'Carroll, quotingTony Parsons, “Tony Parsons: I quit the Mirror before I got the boot”, inThe Guardian[1],→ISSN: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.; (idiomatic)To bevotedout,evicted, or otherwise made to leave.
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