walking papers
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Before that, Karl Dorrell left the crosstown rivalry with his walking papers in 2007, a day after being trampled by the Trojans for the fourth time in five seasons.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2021
Thirty-three years of service and this is what you get: your walking papers, with maybe a medal thrown in.
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2020
We’re a week away from Black Monday, the NFL’s annual flurry of head coaches being given their walking papers.
From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2019
Now-former Baltimore Raven Jordan Lasley got his walking papers Wednesday after a crazy week that included fighting with teammates, scoring a touchdown and inexplicably throwing a football into a pond.
From Fox News • Aug. 2, 2019
If it had been winter, or even early spring or fall, a regular assistant would have been appointed at once, and the castaway given his walking papers.
From The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
