get (one's) cards

To be fired from one's job. Primarily heard in UK. After messing up that account, I'm terrified that I'm going to get my cards from my boss.

get your cards

be dismissed from your employment. British informal

Cards are the national insurance card and other documents relating to an employee that are retained by the employer during the period that the employee works for them. Give someone their cards means ‘make someone redundant’.

词组	get (one's) cards
释义	get (one's) cards get (one's) cards To be fired from one's job. Primarily heard in UK. After messing up that account, I'm terrified that I'm going to get my cards from my boss. See also: card, get Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. get your cards be dismissed from your employment. British informal Cards are the national insurance card and other documents relating to an employee that are retained by the employer during the period that the employee works for them. Give someone their cards means ‘make someone redundant’. See also: card, get Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: be out of (one's) head be at a disadvantage at a disadvantage address (one's) comments to (someone or something) address comments or remarks to address (one's) remarks to (someone or something) be in it for be more than (something) be more than glad, ready, etc. away from it all
随便看	stock up with (something) stock with stog stogie stogies stogy stoke stoked stoked on stoked on (someone or something) stoked on someone or something stoked out stoked out of (one's) mind stoke something up stoke up stokin’ stole stolen stolen fruit is sweet stolen fruit is sweetest stolen fruit is (the) sweetest stolen pleasures are (the) sweetest stomach stomp stomp a mudhole in (someone or something)