old heave-ho

So they gave their once beloved leader the old heave-ho.

I fear that there’s no denying, In your mouth I might be dying; Please give me the old heave-ho; Let me go, let me go, let me go!

“God, please God, let her give him the old heave-ho,” said Francis, turning his eyes to heaven, when he heard this bit of intelligence.

Yet while these examples suggest that the filibuster can occasionally be beneficial, its origins as a freakish mistake and its more common use as a tool for reactionary obstructionism — particularly to maintain white supremacy and stop voting rights — make it clear that it needs the old heave-ho.

The president is cycling through far-fetched accusations of fraud rather than acknowledge that, indisputably, voters gave him the old heave-ho.