Idiom
walk the plank
Meaning
To be forced to resign from a position in an organization.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The manager made the lazy employee walk the plank.”
“After the company lost a lot of money, the board forced the CEO to walk the plank.”
“Following the disastrous quarterly results, the director was effectively told to walk the plank, ending his decade-long tenure at the firm.”
Examples
simple
“The manager made the lazy employee walk the plank.”
contextual
“After the company lost a lot of money, the board forced the CEO to walk the plank.”
complex
“Following the disastrous quarterly results, the director was effectively told to walk the plank, ending his decade-long tenure at the firm.”
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