ask for your papers

ask for your papers
   to resign from employment
   Usually from an official position in a huff, the papers being the supposed commission which you were handed on appointment:
    ... his plumbing is done and he has asked for his papers. (Sayers, 1937 — he was a diplomat, not an artisan)

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