let (someone) go

to end someone's employment.

It was too bad that we had to let him go.

The company has let go about 70 contract engineers.

• draw a bead on someone
• draw a bead on something
• draw a blank
• draw a line in the sand
• draw a line under
• draw a line under something
• draw a veil over
• draw a veil over something
• draw battle lines
• draw blood
• draw fire
• drawing card
• draw in horns
• draw in your horns
• draw on
• draw on something
• draw out
• draw someone out
• draw someone's fire
• draw something out
• draw the battle lines
• draw the line
• draw the line at
• draw the line at doing something
• draw the line at something