walk the plank

[walk the plank] {v. phr.}

1. To walk off a board extended over the side of a ship and be drowned.

* /The pirates captured the ship and forced the crew to walk the plank./

2. {informal} To resign from a job because someone makes you do it.

* /When a new owner bought the store, the manager had to walk the plank./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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