marching orders
You're fired notice
Marching orders are instructions to move or act, originally military commands directing troops where to go.
The phrase now typically means a directive to leave or get started on something: The boss gave us our marching orders for the project.
To get your marching orders often means being dismissed or fired: After the merger, half the staff got their marching orders.
Act of ending something
- firingTerminating employment
- pink slipEmployment termination notice
- layoffTermination without cause
- sackingDismissal from employment
discharge · notice · boot · axe · ouster · expulsion · redundancy · severance
Guidance on how to proceed
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- missionPurpose-driven task
- briefingConcise information session
assignment · dispatch · deployment · charge · duty · objective · tasking · commission
termination
Act of ending something
sacking · discharge · notice · boot · axe · ouster · expulsion · redundancy · severance · walking papers
instructions
Guidance on how to proceed
- directiveFormal command or instruction
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- missionPurpose-driven task
briefing · assignment · dispatch · deployment · charge · duty · objective · tasking · commission · authorization
- ordersorder, command, decree, dictate, mandate
- sending-offred card, ejection, expulsion, dismissal, disqualification
- goalsgoals, goal, aims, objective, objectives
- decreesdecree, edict, proclamation, fiat, dictate
- drill commandsshoulder arms, fall in, port arms, order arms, forward
- ejectionsred card, sending off, disqualification, tossing, player ejection
marching orderspromotion
Rank increase or publicity
job offer · hiring · tenure · welcome aboard · retention
marching ordersfree rein
Unrestricted freedom to act
carte blanche · blank check · autonomy · discretion · latitude
marching orderswelcome mat
Rug at the entrance
open-door policy · warm welcome · embrace · red carpet treatment · open arms
march, orders, marching, marches, marched, marchers, marching band, marcher