one's walking papers

*one's walking papers

Fig. a notice that one is fired from one's job. (*Typically: get ~; have ~; give one ~.) Well, I'm through. I got my walking papers today. They are closing down my department. I guess I'll get my walking papers soon.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Merfyn	-	Welsh
Sanjiv	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Telugu, Kannada
Amnon	-	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew, Hebrew
Minttu	MEENT-too	Finnish
Willem	VIL-ləm, WIL-ləm	Dutch
Mahmood	-	Arabic