get the sack的典故谁知道它有没有典故啊?
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get the sack的典故谁知道它有没有典故啊?
get the sack的典故
谁知道它有没有典故啊?
get the sack的典故谁知道它有没有典故啊?
Meaning
To be dismissed from a job.
Origin
The probably derivation is the allusion to tradesmen,who owned their own tools,taking them with them in a bag or sack when they were dismissed from employment.
The phrase has been known in France since the 17th century,as 'On luy a donné son sac'.The first recorded English version is in Charles Westmacott's The English Spy,1825:
"You munna split on me,or I shall get the zack for telling on ye."
In his 1869 'Slang Dictionary',John Hotten records these alternatives - 'get the bag' (from the North of England) and 'get the empty' (from London).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/china/learningenglish/realenglish/re/2007/03/070301_sack.shtml