0 If you give someone their walking papers, you ask that person to leave a place or a job because they have done something wrong: --
1 → marching orders --
If it had been winter, or even early spring or fall, a regular assistant would have been appointed at once, and the castaway given his walking papers.
I could have given him his walking papers for a hundred good reasons.
She gave me my walking papers in a jiffy.
Acer announced at the same time that it will be cutting its global staff by 7 percent, which could result in around 600 employees getting their walking papers.
The rest received their walking papers.
Sources suggest that as many as 16 of the 42 nominating committee have been given their walking papers.
When he did the stuff he did, you know, she did not give him his walking papers.
The self-proclaimed "top banana" was given his walking papers.
