bum's rush



*bum's rush

hurrying someone out of a place. (As someone might quickly escort a vagrant from a fancy restaurant. *Typically: get ~; give someone ~.) The young customer in the jewelry store was getting the bum's rush until he pulled out an enormous roll of bills. Bill got the bum's rush at the restaurant because he didn't have a tie on.
See also: rush

bum's rush

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]
See also: rush

bum's rush

A forcible ejection. The “classical” bum's rush was a bartender or bouncer lifting the deadbeat or intruder by the back of his shirt or jacket collar and the seat of his pants and then throwing him through the tavern door. The phrase, which came into vogue around the turn of the 20th century, survives in its “throw the bum out!” incarnation.
See also: rush

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Kyriakos-Greek, Ancient Greek
Hryhoriyhri-HO-reeyUkrainian
NaİMe-Turkish
Stamatis-Greek
Matfeymaht-VYAYRussian
Vangelis-Greek