give sb the heave-ho
informal humorousto take someone's job away from them, usually because that person has done something wrong:
The newspaper's foreign editor was given the heave-ho yesterday.
to end a romantic relationship with someone
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Firing staff
- axe
- be out on your ear idiom
- chop
- constructive dismissal
- defrock
- delayering
- furlough
- get the push idiom
- grass
- heave-ho
- invalid sb out
- lay sb off
- pension
- relieve
- removal
- remove
- retire
- sack
- sacking
- shakeout
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