be run out of town

To be forced by public pressure to leave some place, usually due to one's indiscretions or misdeeds. Now that this scandal is public knowledge, I'm afraid that I'm going to be run out of town. When people found out that my grandmother was having an affair while my grandfather was fighting in the war, she was run out of town. Those jokers were run out of town in January, but it looks like they're back, and, once again, disturbing the peace.