Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—W

Walk Spanish

To make a man walk Spanish is to give him the sack; to give him his discharge. In 1885 one of the retired captains in the Trinity House Establishment said, “If I had to deal with the fellow, I would soon make him walk Spanish, I warrant you.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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