get the sack

[get the sack] {v. phr.}, {slang}

1. To be fired or dismissed from work.

* /John got the sack at the factory last week./

2. To be told by one's lover that the relationship is over.

* /Joanna gave Sam the sack./

See: GET THE AX and GET THE BOUNCE(2).

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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