Happy Friday!!
This weeks fun phrase is ” Walk the plank!”
Meaning: Go to ones doom; be fired from ones job or ousted from a group.
History:It was a popular form of execution among pirates at the sea, particularly during the 17th century: A plank was put out from the deck, rather like a diving board, and the captive or the untrustworthy associate was made to walk to the end and keep going. It soon became a popular literary image. Sir Walter Scott used it in The Pirate (1822); “They should be made to walk the plank for their impudence.”
