Idiom
hand someone their cards
Meaning
To dismiss someone from employment; to fire or make redundant.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The manager had to hand him his cards after the store closed.”
“After the company lost its biggest client, the boss had to hand several employees their cards.”
“The sudden downturn in the market forced the board to hand their cards to the entire marketing department without prior warning.”
Examples
simple
“The manager had to hand him his cards after the store closed.”
contextual
“After the company lost its biggest client, the boss had to hand several employees their cards.”
complex
“The sudden downturn in the market forced the board to hand their cards to the entire marketing department without prior warning.”
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