Idiom
give the sack
Meaning
To dismiss from employment
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The boss had to give him the sack for being late.”
“After several warnings about his poor performance, the manager finally decided to give him the sack.”
“The company decided to give the sack to the entire department following the sudden collapse of their primary market.”
Examples
simple
“The boss had to give him the sack for being late.”
contextual
“After several warnings about his poor performance, the manager finally decided to give him the sack.”
complex
“The company decided to give the sack to the entire department following the sudden collapse of their primary market.”
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