0 If you give someone their marching orders, you ask that person to leave a place or a job because they have done something wrong:
1 instructions from someone in authority about what you should do:
2 if you give someone their marching orders, you ask them to leave a job, usually because they have done something wrong:
We can no longer credit - nor should we want to - the idea of a metadiscourse that confidently delivers from on high marching orders to our social and cultural practices.
He has his marching orders from those who are not here.
Units, trusts, authorities—all of them have had their marching orders.
The main fault, it seems to me, is that we do not get our marching orders anti do not get them far enough ahead.
It does not want to be soothed, humoured, or persuaded; it wants its marching orders.
What the nation wants, in my view, is clear and intelligent marching orders and not "mark time" orders.
But a total of 3 000 businesses have now been given their marching orders.
But the moment they become alien then notwithstanding their previous immunity they will get their marching orders.