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What is the origin of the term "get fired" as in: You might get fired if you go to work drunk?
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#55362. Asked by TommyBundok.
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gmackematix
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If a bullet is fired it is propelled rapidly from the gun. I suppose the idea is that a fired person is similarly propelled out of their job.
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ungar
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Could it stem from the British punishment to Indian mutineers who wouldn`t handle the pig fat wrapped amunitions, ie they were tied to the barrels of cannon and " fired".
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