walking papers
Example Sentences
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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
Though Bergen said he was never given an official explanation for his dismissal, he said the producers weren't wrong for giving him his walking papers.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2015
It's only a question of hours, I might say of one hour, before you get your walking papers, so to speak; for they are mad, Mike Prim.
From The Co-Citizens by Harris, Corra
