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When will the big fish MPs get the heave-ho ?

"There are some people who should simply get the heave-ho," he said.

Personal belongings that get the heave-ho will be sold at an on-the-air yard sale, and the proceeds will go toward the household makeover.

While fixing the floor in the green bathroom, one worker assumed the green porcelain bathtub would get the heave-ho, so he broke it up with a sledgehammer.

The book has lots of cases (Did James Robinson get the heave-ho at American Express because, like Richard II, he neglected his realm?), but the professor is most cogent in holding his own experiences up to Shakespeare's mirror.

The both of them may well reflect that from a side that in successive Tests has been bowled out for 81 and 110 it is the two bowlers who get the heave-ho, and it is hard not to sympathise.

Legumes get the heave-ho because they cause bloating, while quite a few of the authors seem to believe that eating peanuts in particular will give you cancer, though, they helpfully point out, other nut butters make an excellent substitute, for three times the price.

There are a couple of important stories in The Times worth highlighting today, one on determining when an old appliance should — and should not — get the heave-ho, and one on a burst of interest in mass transit driven by high gas prices.

Even gravitational monsters can get the heave-ho.

The issue has come up before, and in March, Jillian Keenan made a compelling case over at Slate that if any of the bills were to get a makeover, the $20 bill that features Andrew Jackson — racist, architect of a genocidal campaign against Native Americans and opponent of paper currency (irony of ironies) — should be the one to get the heave-ho.

If not, it got the heave.

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