plank Idiom, Proverb
walk the plank
Idiom(s): walk the plankTheme: PUNISHMENT
to suffer punishment at the hand of someone. (From the image of pirates making their blindfolded captives commit suicide by walking off the end of a plank jutting out over the open sea.)
• Fred may think he can make the members of my department walk the plank, but we will fight back.
• Tom thought he could make John walk the plank, but John fought back.
walk the plank|plank|walk
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.plank
planksee walk the plank.
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