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单词 to get one's marching orders
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to get one's marching orders
b. In extended use: instructions, esp. instructions to leave, a dismissal; (Sport) a sending-off. Frequently in to get one's marching orders.
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [noun] > a denial or refusal > rebuff
rebuff1582
affrontment1611
backslap1828
marching orders1856
a slap in (or on) the face, in the eye, on the wrist1861
rebuffal1887
a smack in the face1895
brush1941
brush-off1941
a smack in the eye1941
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > injunction or instruction > an injunction or instruction > set of
standing order1619
sailing orders1796
marching orders1856
remit1877
rules of engagement1957
ROE1970
1856 A. Doten Jrnls. 20 June (1973) I. 291 Today is the day on which those under marching orders from the V.C. have to leave.
1879 H. James Confidence I. xii. 167 I was afraid he had given them marching orders.
1937 B. de Holthoir tr. G. Duhamel Pasquier Chron. 88 The barometer, too, nearly had its marching orders, but mother said: ‘Oh, for what it will fetch it might as well stay where it is.’
1951 Sport 16–22 Mar. 10/3 Such an exhibition on a football field is most reprehensible, and any referee would be acting in the best interests of the game as a whole if he gave them marching orders.
1974 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story x. 79 An eye should be kept on him, to my mind. Given his marching orders, he ought to be.
1992 N.Y. Times 7 July c11/1 The director was barking out marching orders to a sweating cast whose enthusiasm..managed to triumph over the heat.
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