muscle someone out

muscle someone out
muscle someone out of something & muscle someone out
to force someone out of something; to push someone out of something. (Can be physical or by coercion.) •

Are you trying to muscle me out of my job?

The younger people are muscling out the older ones.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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