give a P45

give a P45
   British
   to dismiss peremptorily from employment
   Referring to the number of the tax form given to the departing employee, including those who retire or leave of their own volition:
    When nasty British journalists were suggesting he should be given his P45 he consoled himself with the knowledge that life... was nowhere near as bad as it was in the White House for his college friend Bill Clinton. (Sunday Telegraph, 8 August 1999)

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