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What does get the sack mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic, chiefly Britain) To be dismissed from employment.
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It appears particularly hard to get the sack from British banks.
I know it's next to impossible, but if there was, someone would get the sack at Sky.
At the beginning of the season everyone was expecting me to be sacked, many people were hoping I would get the sack and others were writing about me getting the sack.
But then he shouldn't fear failure – he can only get the sack.
Female news readers tend to get the sack when they have passed the stage of pulchritude.
Apparently, I was going to get the sack then but we'd played so well that chairman Steve Gibson decided he couldn't do it.

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