Vote someone/thing off the Island
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( Handout / August 23, 2012 ) definition for vote someone/thing off the island (verb): informal, chiefly dismiss or reject someone or something as unsatisfactory: when a CEO gets voted off the island, the CFO typically gets dumped, too [with reference to the reality television series "Survivor" (first broadcast in 2000), in which contestants are isolated in a remote area and gradually eliminated from the game through successive rounds of voting] |
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