get one's marching orders

English

Verb

get one's marching orders (third-person singular simple present gets one's marching orders, present participle getting one's marching orders, simple past got one's marching orders, past participle (UK) got one's marching orders or (US) gotten one's marching orders)

  1. (idiomatic) To be dismissed disgracefully.
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