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get (one's) marching orders
get (one's) marching orders
To be dismissed from employment or to be ordered to leave or move on from a place. An allusion to a military command of deployment. After messing up that account, I'm terrified that I'm going to get my marching orders. Bill had been living in his parents' house for nearly a year without working when he finally got his marching orders out of there.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Ranko | | - | Serbian, Croatian |
Bret | | BRET | English |
Torsten | | TOSH-ten (Swedish), TAWR-sten (German) | Swedish, Danish, German |
Inocencio | | ee-no-THEN-thyo (Spanish), ee-no-SEN-syo (Latin American Spanish) | Spanish |
Hendrikje | | - | Dutch |
Lionel | | ['laiənl] | |