bum's rush

English

Etymology

The phrase dates back to 1910 (US).

Pronunciation

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Noun

bum's rush (plural bum's rushes)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, slang, idiomatic) Forcible ejection of someone, such as a bum (hobo), from an establishment.
   • 1914 August, Wm. Hamilton Osborne, “Blowing the Crowd”, in Ambition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help, volume 9, number 8:

     "Never you mind," he retorted, " but you got no call to put the bum's rush onto me — I ain't no bum, I tell you."

   • 1948, Daily Labor Report - Issues 181-210, page 326:

     It seems that the board appointed to look into alleged shortcomings of leftish Council leaders didn't like the "observers" who were brought along and decided to give them the bum's rush.

   • 2013, Chris Crowley, Jennifer Sacheck, Thinner This Year: A Younger Next Year Book:

     But suddenly he has a lucid interval . . . senses exactly what is going on. And he gives me this furious look. Astonishes me by saying, with all the old force, in his old, frightening growl: “This is a bum's rush!”

   • 2013, Jack Mingo, Bees Make the Best Pets, page 81:

     Early last September, some fellow beekeepers reported that the females in their bee colonies had already given the bum's rush to the males, the drones, kicking them out in the cold.

Related terms

• bum rush (verb) (1980s)
• bum-rush

Translations

to be forcibly ejected

• French: course à l’échalote (fr) f, débarquement (fr) m

See also

• Baumes law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia : although this has been suggested as the origin of the phrase, bum's rush was in use more than a decade before the law was passed.