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get one's cardsBritish informal Be dismissed from one’s employment: he got his cards on his 50th birthday...- He was shocked and devastated when he got his cards after more than three decades of service.
- On the shop floor it more or less meant the proles getting their cards and hapless, toadying management promoted beyond their competence.
- This came under Joe Royle in the 1995/96 campaign but was not enough to prevent the Everton playing great getting his cards shortly afterwards.
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