give the elbow
Verb
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Verb
give the elbow
- (transitive, slang, British) To fire (an employee); to terminate the employment of.
- They said I couldn't do the job so they gave me the elbow. So, now I'm looking for work again.
- fire
- sack
- See also Thesaurus:lay off
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