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1 give someone the sack
• najuriti iz službe; otkazati službu
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give someone the sack — give (someone) the sack get the sack to be told to leave your job. After only 2 weeks she was given the sack for being rude to a customer … New idioms dictionary
give the sack — give (someone) the sack get the sack to be told to leave your job. After only 2 weeks she was given the sack for being rude to a customer … New idioms dictionary
get the sack — If someone gets the sack, they lose their job, usually because they have done something wrong. Charlie got the sack when his boss caught him stealing … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
sack — The expressions to sack (someone) or to give (someone) the sack, meaning ‘to dismiss’ and to get the sack, meaning ‘to be dismissed’, are all still informal only despite a history of use since the 19c, possibly as a loan translation of the French … Modern English usage
get into the sack with someone — get/climb/jump/into the sack with someone informal phrase to have sex with someone that you do not know very well Thesaurus: to have sexsynonym sexual activity … Useful english dictionary
climb into the sack with someone — get/climb/jump/into the sack with someone informal phrase to have sex with someone that you do not know very well Thesaurus: to have sexsynonym sexual activity … Useful english dictionary
jump into the sack with someone — get/climb/jump/into the sack with someone informal phrase to have sex with someone that you do not know very well Thesaurus: to have sexsynonym sexual activity … Useful english dictionary
leave\ holding\ the\ sack — • leave holding the bag • leave holding the sack v. phr. informal 1. To cause (someone) not to have something needed; leave without anything, In the rush for seats, Joe was left holding the bag. 2. To force (someone) to take the whole… … Словарь американских идиом
give (someone) the air — to dismiss from employment The employee may also, if so unfortunate, be given the bag1, the boot, the bullet, the breeze, the sack, notice, warning, the wind2, his running shoes, etc. Also, apart from the bag, the sack, notice, or warning,… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
give someone the Spanish archer — Vrb phrs. To dismiss, to sack. A pun on the Spanish archer being called El Bow, thus give someone the elbow (dismiss someone). E.g. I found out she was having it away with the milkman, so I gave her the old spanish archer … English slang and colloquialisms
sack — I UK [sæk] / US verb [transitive] Word forms sack : present tense I/you/we/they sack he/she/it sacks present participle sacking past tense sacked past participle sacked ** 1) British informal to tell someone that they can no longer work at their… … English dictionary