Idiom of the Day
walking papers
a statement saying that one is fired from his or her job
My friend was given his walking papers from his company last week.
Fact
In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip.
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