Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “get the boot” and its meaning is “to lose one’s job; to be dismissed, to be removed, to be discharged, to be sacked, to be fired, to be kicked out, to be laid off, to be made redundant”.
Example Sentence: So, Elon Musk bought a platform of whose workings he knew little and began to “move fast and break things”, as the Silicon Valley motto has it… He has sacked enormous numbers of staff, beginning with a purge of about half of employees, before begging some of them to return. Meanwhile, a senior Twitter executive made it clear how little those who did return were valued, and how soon they would get the boot again. In leaked Slack messages, he called them “weak, lazy and unmotivated”, and he said they could easily be sacked again.
This phrase is present in The Guardian article Elon Musk never cared if Twitter was a business failure – he wants a political win and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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