off the payroll

off the payroll
   1. dismissed from employment
   Joining the rest of humanity which was never on that particular payroll in the first place:
    So the old boy hadn't known I was 'off the payroll'. (Shirer, 1984 — the newspaper proprietor had not known that a journalist on one of his newspapers had been dismissed)
   2. employed by a competitor
   Not paid by the same master:
    If a transmission took place without these words, the ex-CIA man would know that whoever was out there... was off the payroll. (Forsyth, 1996)

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

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