get the push
UK informalto be told to leave your job:
Rick got the push a few weeks ago.
to be told by someone that your relationship with them has ended:
She got the push from Martin last night.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Firing staff
- axe
- be out on your ear idiom
- chop
- constructive dismissal
- defrock
- delayering
- furlough
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- grass
- heave-ho
- invalid sb out
- lay sb off
- pension
- relieve
- removal
- remove
- retire
- sack
- sacking
- shakeout
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