marching orders
Use Marching orders in a sentencemarching orders
Origin:
1770–80
1770–80
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| marching orders | |
| —pl n | |
| 1. | military orders, esp to infantry, giving instructions about a march, its destination, etc |
| 2. | informal notice of dismissal, esp from employment |
| 3. | informal the instruction to proceed with a task |
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Marching orders
is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Example sentences
Call them a set of marching orders for the next five years.
The heads of those agencies serve at the president's pleasure and obey his marching orders.
Maybe it is more to be pitied-as the recipient of conflicting marching orders.
Previous staff as well as those presently employed, performed their jobs with this mandate as their marching orders.
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