Sentence examples for got the heave from inspiring English sources

If not, it got the heave.

After she got the heave-ho, she batted her big brown eyes at the camera and moaned: "You wanna see a girl that's crushed, you got her".

Patrons (the journalist Isabel Paterson), allies (the economist Ludwig von Mises), publishers (Random House's Bennett Cerf), disciples (the philosopher John Hospers), and even a long-lost sister who showed up from Russia — all got the heave-ho.

Helping lead the rolling revolt – it resumes on Monday in the Lords – is Bob Kerslake, at David Cameron's elbow as head of the civil service until he got the heave-ho.

After 24 years in the same rent-controlled apartment that I had used as my office (but absolutely not as a mortuary or dental practice, which everyone knows is against code, if you're reading this, L.A. Housing Department), I got the heave-ho when the owners informed me that they needed the place for family.

It's the first Shins album without keyboard player Marty Crandall and drummer Jesse Sandoval, fired by frontman James Mercer after the band's 2007 tour; bassist Dave Hernandez seems to have got the heave-ho at some point during the album's recording.

Wrestling got the heave-ho for the 2020 games.

Snowboarder Jamie Anderson and retired baseball player Johnny Damon got the heave-ho.

The Music Fest's board chair Rob LeBuhn got the heave-ho this week when a majority of the board said he had to go.

What's getting the heave are most hyphens linking the halves of a compound noun.

Humanity is getting the heave-ho.