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This comes from www.phrases.org.uk Get the sack Meaning To be dismissed from a job. Origin The probably derivation is the allusion to tradesmen, who owned their own tools, taking them with them in a bag or sack when they were dismissed from employment. The phrase has been known in France since the 17th century, as 'On luy a donné son sac'. The first recorded English version is in Charles Westmacott's The English Spy, 1825: "You munna split on me, or I shall get the zack for telling on ye." In his 1869 'Slang Dictionary', John Hotten records these alternatives - 'get the bag' (from the North of England) and 'get the empty' (from London). Just a well-intentioned hint - this Q shouldn't be in the answerbag subcategory. It should be in social sciences--> etymology. (It took me a while to find this category too. I'm been suggesting a separate category just for language.)
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