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walk the plank
Idioms and Phrases
Be forced to resign, as in We were sure that Ted hadn't left of his own accord; he'd walked the plank . This metaphoric idiom alludes to a form of execution used in the 17th century, mainly by pirates, whereby a victim was forced to walk off the end of a board placed on the edge of the ship's deck and so drown. [Second half of 1800s]Example Sentences
Change was inevitable and the right call was made for coach Matthew Mott, rather than captain Jos Buttler, to walk the plank.
Trump, who openly supports firing strikers, could never be expected to agree not to prevent a rail strike, but the Teamsters seemed to be demanding that Harris agree to walk the plank on this issue.
Unlike earlier decades, when Republicans avoided losses, some Georgia GOP lawmakers are now likely to walk the plank when new districts are drawn.
"Can Chick-fil-A continue to walk the plank ... and at the same time do DEI, which really keeps everybody happy in the corporate end? If their states start mandating it, some of these companies are going to have to start doing things that they said they'd never do."
Jen Kiggans had the haunted look of a woman about to walk the plank.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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