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let someone go

idiom

To dismiss someone from an employment position or a relationship.


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Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    all dressed up and nowhere to go

    Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.

  2. 02

    all systems go

    Everything is ready.

  3. 03

    as if someone owns the place

    Alternative form of like someone owns the place.

  4. 04

    as you go

    While one is doing (something); as one progresses.

  5. 05

    beat someone round the ears

    To beat (a person) with blows about the head.

  6. 06

    bless someone with

    To give or bestow, as a gift from God.

  7. 07

    boldly go where no man has gone before

    To break new ground.

  8. 08

    bring someone to their knees

    To defeat and make submit to orders.

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