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
Margit-Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Estonian
Zhong-Chinese
Hristina-Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian
PaŠKal-Croatian (Rare)
Haidar-Arabic
Miomee-oJapanese