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The phrase "be given the sack" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe someone being dismissed or fired from their job. Example: "After several warnings about his performance, he was finally given the sack."
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The first episode [before their marriage], Anna goes to take Mr. Bates a tray of food because he's going to be given the sack because of his leg injury.
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So how should you talk to somebody who has just been given the sack?
Peter Henley (@BBCPeterH) The Minister for Employment has been given the sack.
He was given the sack, without ado or farewell, and New York publishers are now madly bidding against one another for the rights to his future work.
Add to these the quarterly "waves" when headquarters decides to reduce headcount and a certain percentage of staff worldwide are given the sack, all on one day.
The 18-year-old who has settled for shoddy accommodation because he wants to leave home and it's cheap; the unskilled factory worker afraid to raise concerns in case they're given the sack.
He examines it from several angles, from the perspective of the characters played by Affleck, Cooper and Jones, each of whom reacts to being given the sack in a different way.
And Curtis Davies could leave Aston Villa in January in a tiff over not quite having played enough games to be given the huge sack full of gemstones, parmesan cheese and £2 coins stipulated in his contract, but wanting it anyway despite having spent most of the last year in a Bath chair smoking a pipe.
It is embarrassing for Mr Goldsmith, who has campaigned on the importance for MPs to maintain high standards in public life and called for constituents to be given the power to sack their MPs if they are implicated in sleaze.
If the Conservatives win the election, we the people are to be given the powers to run schools, sack MPs, call for local referendums on issues of local importance, and elect police chiefs.
Only recently have Local Health Systems been given the power to sack staff [ 14].
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