orders are orders

orders are orders

This thing or things must be done because a person of authority has commanded it, even if it or they are unpleasant to do. Look, I don't like having to decide who's going to lose their job, but orders are orders, and we have to let someone go.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

orders are orders

commands must be obeyed, however much you may disagree with them.
See also: order
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See also:
  • come to a bad end
  • come to a bad/sticky end
  • Let every man skin his own skunk.
  • he that would go to sea for pleasure would go to hell for a pastime
  • He that would go to sea for pleasure, would go to hell for a pastime
  • like pulling teeth
  • get a taste of (one's) own medicine
  • a dose of your own medicine
  • dose
  • dose of one's own medicine