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give someone the heave-ho
vs
give someone the sack
give someone the heave-ho
verb
To eject a player or manager from the game.
To fire, expel or break up with someone.
give someone the sack
How often have the words
give someone the heave-ho
and
give someone the sack
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)