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Jimmy Hung
2022-02-09 06:02
Kick (someone or something) to the curb American informal verb phrase
A "curb" is the raised stone or concrete edge by the side of the road. When you cross the street, you step up onto the curb to get from the road and onto the sidewalk.
Residents of homes usually bring their trash to the curb in front of their house so that garbage collectors can easily and quickly put the garbage into the truck.
This idiom talks about kicking someone or something, using their foot, through the air, so that they land at the curb, where unwanted garbage is collected.
If a person "kicks someone or something to the curb", he/she gets rid of someone or something that is no longer valuable.
I have heard that Mary kicked her boyfriend to the curb because he lied to her many times.
He got kicked to the curb by his manager last week. Now he is pounding the pavement.
Don't you think it's time for me to kick my computer to the curb? It has been out of order for weeks.
The verb "kick" should be conjugated according to its tense.
The origin of this phrase is unknown.
Do you see anything wrong?
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.
