get the bounce

[get the bounce] or [get the gate] {v. phr.}, {slang}

1. or [get the air] To lose one's sweetheart; not be kept for a friend or lover.

* /Joe is sad because he just got the gate from his girl./

* /Shirley was afraid she might get the air from her boyfriend if she went out with other boys while he was away./

2. or [get the sack] also [get the hook] To be fired; lose a job.

* /Uncle Willie can't keep a job; he got the sack today for sleeping on the job./

* /You're likely to get the bounce if you are absent from work too much./

Contrast: GIVE THE BOUNCE.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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