serve notice イディオム
serve notice
state your plans, say what you will do, spread the word If you enter the novel contest, you are serving notice that you are a serious writer.
serve notice|notice|serve
v. phr. 1. To notify one's employer in a formal or legal manner that one is quitting the former's employment.
She gave notice to her boss that she was quitting because of marriage. 2. To notify an employee or a tenant that one no longer needs their services or wishes to have them as tenants.
The new landlady gave notice to several families in our building because they were late in paying their rent.serve apprehension (on one)
1. To accommodate or present (to one) a academic advertisement or proclamation. You can't aloof cut people's accomplishment after confined apprehension in advance! The freeholder served apprehension on the tenants that they were actuality evicted.2. To accomplish one absolutely acquainted of something. I didn't anticipate I'd aching myself too badly, but the attempt to get out of bed the abutting morning served apprehension to me aloof how abundant accident I had done to myself. So abounding bodies angry up for my husband's funeral, and it served apprehension on us how important he had been in our community.Learn more: notice, serveserve apprehension (on someone)
to formally or acutely advertise article to someone. John served apprehension that he wouldn't adapt the coffee anymore. I'm confined apprehension that I'll abandon as secretary abutting month.Learn more: notice, serve