Give Someone the Axe

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🗓️ Idiom: Give Someone the Axe (v)

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💬 Meaning

• To fire or dismiss someone from their job.
• To remove someone from a position, often suddenly or forcefully.

🧠 Example Sentences

• After the restructuring, several managers were given the axe.
• If performance doesn’t improve, the CEO might give the whole department the axe.
• The new director didn’t hesitate to give underperforming staff the axe.

📝 Practice Exercises

1. Fill in the blank:

The company had to cut costs, so several employees were __________.

Answer

given the axe

2. Choose the correct meaning of “give someone the axe”:

A) To promote someone
B) To fire someone
C) To assign someone a new task

Answer

B) To fire someone

3. Rewrite the sentence using the idiom:

“They fired three employees last week.” → Change the sentence using: give someone the axe

Answer

They gave three employees the axe last week.

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