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
GraŻYna	grah-ZHI-nah	Polish
Radmilo	-	Serbian
Samuilu	-	Old Church Slavic
Svjetlana	-	Croatian, Serbian
DÉBora	DE-bo-rah (Spanish)	Spanish, Portuguese, French
DonndubhÁN	-	Ancient Irish