marching orders

Example Sentences

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Awful in Celadon: I would alert the sib that parameters have been received and noted, and they will be treated as suggestions, not marching orders, thanks in advance for understanding.

From Washington Post

“My father gave me marching orders to end it and make sure it doesn’t happen again,” Atkins said of the pandemic.

From Seattle Times

“You cannot have a real country if a bunch of corrupt scumbags who take their marching orders from the Communist Chinese tell us what we’re allowed to say and how we’re allowed to say it.”

From New York Times

His menu takes its marching orders from the restaurant’s name, meaning “land and sea” in Italian.

From New York Times

The court said those sentenced had received marching orders from “people both from Cuba and abroad.”

From Washington Post