Definition
To be forced to resign from a position in an organization.
In Context
- "After he was caught selling company secrets, it’s not surprising they made him walk the plank."
- "I forgot that I had been given the place as a "political reward." I was immediately reminded of it by the expectations of those political "workers" whom the Board of County Commissioners wished me to appoint to officers in my court. […] When I refused to make a single clerk "walk the plank," their indignation was amazing."
- "[Grover] Cleveland stood pat and another "carpet bagger" [William A. Vincent, Chief Justice of the First Judicial District, Territory of New Mexico] had walked the plank to political exile so far as New Mexico was concerned."
- "If, on the other hand, operating performance is poor to lousy, the COO [chief operating officer] walks the plank while the CEO [chief executive officer] accepts the resignation—which, by the way, is always for "personal" reasons, policy differences, or to pursue other (always unspecified) interests—with regret in varying degrees of intensity."
- "So why on earth would [Bill] Clinton share any credit with Republicans? Did he remember summoning Democrats to walk the plank for this? How could any president spit on their sacrifice and uphold the party cohesion to survive?"
Also Said As
- walk the gangplank