give marching orders

give somebody their marching orders

to tell someone to leave Debbie's finally given her husband his marching orders after ten years of an unhappy marriage.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Damjan	-	Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian
Hermogenes	-	Ancient Greek
Ariston	-	Ancient Greek
Ilmari	EEL-mah-ree	Finnish
Tendaji	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Emi	e-mee	Japanese