Meaning of order of the boot | Babel Free

Definitions

Dismissal.

humorous, informal

Examples

“I have been talking to Pasley . . . He was at the same school with Alec Waugh and confirms the story of his getting the order of the boot.”

“The Hon. Mr. SULLIVAN said, what did J. A. Lee get? He got the “order of the boot", as also did Mr. Barnard, because he would not agree with some of the doings of the Labour party.”

“Freedom has come to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union has shriveled as a world power, the people of Nicaragua have given Danny Ortega the Order of the Boot, and all because of us and our brave revival of the Red Scare.”

CEFR level