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
Swithin	-	History
Atiyah	['ætki]
Nahum	NAY-əm (English), NAY-həm (English)	Biblical
Atalyah	-	Biblical Hebrew
Konstantine	-	Georgian
Gustaf	GOO-stahf (German)	Swedish, German