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.
See also: get, marche, order

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Ranko-Serbian, Croatian
BretBRETEnglish
TorstenTOSH-ten (Swedish), TAWR-sten (German)Swedish, Danish, German
Inocencioee-no-THEN-thyo (Spanish), ee-no-SEN-syo (Latin American Spanish)Spanish
Hendrikje-Dutch
Lionel['laiənl]