drop the boom on

drop the boom on
   to discriminate against
   Literally, to activate a defensive obstruction to navigation. Of the withdrawal of credit facilities, exclusion from confidence, or dismissal from employment:
    [He] still worried that Harold would drop the boom on him. (Mclnerney, 1992 — he was afraid of losing his job)

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