get (one's) walking papers

To be dismissed from employment or to be ordered to leave or move on from a place. After messing up that account, I'm terrified that I'm going to get my walking papers. When Bill came home drunk for the fourth night in a row, he finally got his walking papers from his wife.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Izolda	ee-ZAWL-dah (Polish)	Georgian, Polish
Guntur	GOON-toor	Indonesian
Shanthi	-	Tamil, Indian, Malayalam, Kannada
Annick	-	Breton
Sonja	ZAWN-yah (German), SON-yah (Finnish)	German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Finnish, Slovene, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonia
Tarja	TAHR-yah	Finnish