bum's rush

The ’70s loved a beautiful loser, like James Garner’s Jim Rockford, the ex-con private eye whom the world gave the bum’s rush no matter how many cases he cracked.

Certainly, it was a cheeky move, but the man didn’t deserve the bum’s rush.

Or relocating to a parking garage after getting the bum’s rush from the Capitol.

It is no small thing to attempt the bum’s rush on an elected president who survived one impeachment easily but who is weakened now as a lame duck.

The Trump administration has already given his Republican allies in Florida the bum’s rush by, thus far, shortchanging the state in its request for federal funding to restore the Everglades.