get on your bike

get on your bike
   obsolete
   to be dismissed from employment
   A reminder of the days when the majority of employees cycled to and from work:
    They'll still keep him on. There's no talk at all of telling him to get on his bike. {Private Eye, July 1980)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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