| 单词 | to give the sack |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto give (a person) the sack 4. slang. to give (a person) the sack: to dismiss from employment or office; transferred to discard, turn off (a lover). So to get the sack: to receive one's dismissal. The phrase has been current in French from the 17th cent.: cf. ‘On luy a donné son sac, hee hath his pasport giuen him (said of a seruant whom his master hath put away)’ (Cotgrave). Cf. Dutch iemand den zak geven, to give one the sack (already in Middle Dutch), den zak krijgen, to get the sack. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > lack of work > [noun] > dismissal or discharge discharginga1398 discharge1523 quietus est1530 conduction1538 cassing1550 remove1553 destitution1554 mittimus1596 dismissionc1600 quietus1635 removal1645 cashierment1656 separation1779 dismissing1799 dismissala1806 to give (a person) the sack1825 bullet1841 congee1847 decapitation1869 G.B.1880 the shove1899 spear1912 bob-tail1915 severance1941 sacking1958 termination1974 society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (intransitive)] > dismiss or discharge > be dismissed or discharged to get the bag1804 to get the sack1825 swap1862 to get the boot1888 to take a walk1888 to get the run1889 to get (or have) the swap1890 to get the (big) bird1924 to get one's jotters1944 the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who capriciously casts off a lover > fact of being dismissed to give (a person) the sack1902 1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 178 You munna split on me, or I shall get the zack for telling on ye. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 199 I wonder what old Fogg 'ud say, if he knew it. I should get the sack, I s'pose—eh? 1840 W. M. Thackeray Shabby Genteel Story v The short way would have been..to have requested him immediately to quit the house; or, as Mr. Gann said, ‘to give him the sack at once’. 1902 W. Besant Five Years' Tryst 12 Frivolity and even lightness of conversation were sure to be followed by the sack. 1913 J. Stephens Here are Ladies 102 Getting the ‘sack’ is an experience which wearies after the first time. 1935 D. Garnett Beany-eye i. 34 If I just give him the sack he won't get another job and will get into a brawl and be sent to prison again. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier i. i. 11 If they failed to secure a minimum of twenty orders a day, they got the sack. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 May 274/1 Always late, crumpled and scruffy, perpetually in debt, hourly expecting the sack, Greave takes refuge from the horrid realities of life in Mittyesque fantasies, pretending he is a high-powered American salesman. < as lemmas |
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