get your marching orders

Meaning

1. to be ordered to leave a place, a job, etc.

In the movies · 2

• And I get it. You got your marching orders...The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013
• Looks like Tanner's been getting his marching orders directly from Haney. What do we do now, Joe?My Fellow Americans1996

Learn it in full scenes

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013
  • Walter Calls eHarmony for Help
  • The Office Learns It's Acquired
  • Walter and Cheryl Meet at the Office
• My Fellow Americans1996
  • Golf Talk Turns Awkward
  • The Missing Appointment Log
  • Tanner Summons the Presidents

From the same entry

• give their marching orders
• march to a different drummer
• march on
• march on
• on the march
• steal a march