walking papers

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Thirty-three years of service and this is what you get: your walking papers, with maybe a medal thrown in.

From Salon • Sep. 20, 2020

We’re a week away from Black Monday, the NFL’s annual flurry of head coaches being given their walking papers.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2019

Now-former Baltimore Raven Jordan Lasley got his walking papers Wednesday after a crazy week that included fighting with teammates, scoring a touchdown and inexplicably throwing a football into a pond.

From Fox News • Aug. 2, 2019

Speculation ran wild about which college program Kelly might helm next year after receiving his walking papers in Philadelphia.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2015

The following day I got my walking papers.

From The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life by Walter, Eugene