give somebody their marching orders イディオム
give someone their marching orders
fire someone: "After the argument, he was given his marching orders."
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get your feet under the table
get settled in: "It only took him a week to get his feet under the table, then he started to make changes."
under orders|orders|under
adv. phr. Not out of one's own desire or one's own free will; obligatorily; not freely.
"So you were a Nazi prison guard? " the judge asked. "Yes, your Honor," the man answered, "but I was acting under orders and not because I wished to harm anyone."
walking papers|orders|papers|ticket|walking|walkin
n.,
informal A statement that you are fired from your job; dismissal.
The boss was not satisfied with Paul's work and gave him his walking papers. George is out of work. He picked up his walking ticket last Friday.
holy orders
holy orders take holy orders to receive Christian ordination
marching orders, get one's
marching orders, get one's Be ordered to move on or proceed; also, be dismissed from a job. For example,
The sales force got their marching orders yesterday, so now they'll be on the road with the new product, or
It's too bad about Jack—the boss gave him his marching orders Friday. This expression originally alluded to a military command. [Colloquial; late 1700s]
give (one) (one's) boot orders
To abolish one from employment; to adjustment one to leave or move on from a place. An allusion to a aggressive command of deployment. After messing up that account, I'm abashed that my bang-up is activity to accord me my boot orders. Bill had been active in his parents' abode for about a year after alive back they assuredly gave him his boot orders out of there.Learn more: give, marche, ordergive somebody their ˈmarching orders
(British English, informal) acquaint somebody to leave a job, a relationship, etc: When she begin out he was seeing addition woman, she gave him his boot orders.Learn more: give, marche, order, somebody
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