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Phrase(s): *the 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.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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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]
American Heritage Idioms