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: --
I have to give him the marching orders and so forth.
Give him his marching orders.
The country wants its marching orders.
We do not take our marching orders from outside.
They all know where their marching orders come from.
In 1954, a conference resolution was passed, and from that moment the marching orders were given.
I do not wish to get my marching orders from you.
But the moment they become alien then notwithstanding their previous immunity they will get their marching orders.