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                            Phrase(s): *the sack [and] *the ax 
dismissal from one’s employment. (*Typically: get ~; give someone ~.)  •  Poor Tom got the sack today. He’s always late.  •  I was afraid that Sally was going to get the ax.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
                        
                        
                    
                    
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                              noun large bag  ADJ.  bulging bulging sacks of toys | hessian, paper, plastic, stuff | flour, mail, potato, refuse VERB + SACK  fill They filled the sacks with potatoes. | put sth in, tie sb/sth (up) in The kittens had been tied up in a sack and thrown in the river. | empty | carry (sth in) SACK + VERB  be filled with sth, be full of sth PREP.  in a/the ~ | ~ of a sack of coal the sack: dismissal from your job  VERB + SACK  get She got the sack after 20 years of service. | give sb | be threatened with, face Hundreds of postal workers are facing the sack.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            Oxford Collocations Dictionary