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Walking the plank is by far not even close to a walk in the park ..."
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walk the plank
[walk the plank]
definition
(formerly) be forced by pirates to walk blindfold along a plank over the side of a ship to one's death in the sea.
informal
lose one's job or position:
"the manager should be made to walk the plank for not insisting Bream be re-signed"

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walk the plank
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walk the plank
To be forced to accept the consequences of something.

The phrase refers to the idea of pirates forcing their prisoners to walk off a plank on a ship and ultimately drown in the ocean.

The person who's embezzling money from the company will have to walk the plank once their identity is discovered.
See also: plank, walk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.

walk the plank

Fig. to suffer punishment at the hand of someone. (Fig. on the image of pirates making their blindfolded captives die by walking off the end of a plank jutting out over the open sea.)

Fred may think he can make the members of my department walk the plank, but we will fight back. Tom thought he could make John walk the plank, but John fought back.
See also: plank, walk
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

walk the plank
Be forced to resign,

as in We were sure that Ted hadn't left of his own accord; he'd walked the plank. This metaphoric idiom alludes to a form of execution used in the 17th century, mainly by pirates, whereby a victim was forced to walk off the end of a board placed on the edge of the ship's deck and so drown. [Second half of 1800s]
See also: plank, walk
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

walk the plank JOURNALISM
If someone in a position of authority walks the plank, they accept responsibility for something bad that has happened and leave their position.

The company announced its new sales figures today, six weeks after the crisis that saw its chief executive walk the plank.

Note: Many people believe that pirates used to kill their prisoners by forcing them to walk along a plank or gangplank sticking out from the edge of a ship until they fell into the sea.
See also: plank, walk

Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
walk the plank lose your job or position.

The image here is of the traditional fate of the victims of pirates: being forced to walk blindfold along a plank over the side of a ship to your death in the sea.
See also: plank, walk
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017

walk the plank
1 (in the past) walk along a board placed over the side of a ship and fall into the sea, as a punishment
2 (informal) be forced to leave your job or position:

The food and the service is terrible in this restaurant. If you ask me, whoever is in charge should be made to walk the plank!
See also: plank, walk
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017

walk the plank
To be forced, as by pirates, to walk off a plank extended over the side of a ship so as to drown.
See also: plank, walk
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

walk the plank, to
To be forced to die or to give up one’s position.

The term refers to a form of execution favored by seventeenth-century pirates. A board was placed on the ship’s deck extending over the water, and the condemned was forced to walk off the end.

Thomas Macaulay used it in 1844: “It would have been necessary for Howe and Nelson to make every French sailor whom they took to walk the plank.”
See also: to, walk
The Dictionary of Clich;s by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer


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Walking the plank was a method of execution practiced on special occasion by pirates, mutineers, and other rogue seafarers. For the amusement of the perpetrators and the psychological torture of the victims, captives were bound so they could not swim or tread water and forced to walk off a wooden plank or beam extended over the side of a ship. Although forcing captives to walk the plank has been a motif of pirates in popular culture since the 19th century, few instances are documented.

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walk in the park
Very easy to do
Meaning of a walk in the park in English a walk in the park idiom
something that is very easy to do, and usually pleasant:
He's used to hard physical work - this is a walk in the park to him.

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In July 1822, William Smith, captain of the British sloop Blessing, was forced to walk the plank by the Spanish pirate crew of the schooner Emanuel in the West Indies.