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turf out
verb
informal(tr, adverb) to throw out or dismiss; eject
we were turfed out of the club
Example Sentences
Because since July – when the Conservatives were not just turfed out of office but reduced to their fewest MPs ever – things have only got worse.
After their verbal attack, Zelensky was unceremoniously turfed out of the White House and not long afterwards Trump ordered the suspension of American military aid and intelligence to Ukraine.
When Labour were turfed out in 2010, it took them 14 years and three leaders before they won again in July.
Now, Labour has brought forward a strengthened version of the bill, including an outright ban on tenants being turfed out for no reason by landlords using a Section 21 notice.
And rather than trying to please all the people all of the time, they chose affluent leafy constituencies where they could try to turf out Tory MPs.
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