sling one's hook | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,derogatory,colloquial)Toleave,depart, especially if forced to do so.1897, Richard Marsh,The Beetle:‘I don’t want none of your apologies, and I don’t want none of you neither; I don’t like the looks of you, and so I tell you. Before I let anybody into my house you’ll have tosling your hook.’2005, Kevin Muir,Run For Freedom:Placing his hand on the doorknob he could hear his father's indignant voice: "If he's no job he can damn wellsling his hook, he's not living under my roof free gratis, I want him out."2007March 6,Julie Rutterford,Life on Mars,Season 2, Episode 3:Landlady:O'Brien? He don't live here any more. Not lived here for months. I made himsling his hook. Never paid his lodgings.

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