BUM'S RUSH Definition & Meaning

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bum's rush

noun

Slang.

forcible and swift ejection from a place:
When they began to cause a disturbance, they were given the bum's rush.
any rude or abrupt dismissal:
He gave the pesky salesman the bum's rush.

bum's rush

noun

forcible ejection, as from a gathering
rapid dismissal, as of an idea

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Origin of bum's rush¹

First recorded in 1920–25

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Idioms and Phrases

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]

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The ’70s loved a beautiful loser, like James Garner’s Jim Rockford, the ex-con private eye whom the world gave the bum’s rush no matter how many cases he cracked.

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Certainly, it was a cheeky move, but the man didn’t deserve the bum’s rush.

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Or relocating to a parking garage after getting the bum’s rush from the Capitol.

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It is no small thing to attempt the bum’s rush on an elected president who survived one impeachment easily but who is weakened now as a lame duck.

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The Trump administration has already given his Republican allies in Florida the bum’s rush by, thus far, shortchanging the state in its request for federal funding to restore the Everglades.

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