2006-09-25 16:49:51 · 16 answers · asked by NchantingPrincess 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Any other meaning besides firing the person?
2006-09-25 16:51:33 · update #1
"To sack a person" can also mean "have sex with"
2006-09-25 16:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To sack a person, or to give them the sack, means to fire them. The term comes from England during the Renaissance period, when a person often lived under his employer's roof, either as a servant or, more frequently, as an apprentice. If he was to be fired, his possessions were placed in a sack and handed to him. They didn't have luggage in those days, so the sack was used instead. And they didn't have very many possessions, especially the younger apprentices.
2006-09-25 17:11:07 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on not just where you are but when you are. As many of already stated you could say that the person no longer has a job. Now if you go with the tern during the period of around 1200's or so. It could mean the person was captured during a battle or killed. This could even mean a city too. An example would be in the movie Braveheart when William Wallace captured York when the Scotts were fighting England. If you want to be strange about it I guess you could say it could me getting someone into to bed with you too. But that would be blowing alot of smoke.
2006-09-25 17:02:57 · answer #3 · answered by is4031_us 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe to have sex. Like as in "hit the sack" means go to bed. Bed that person, or sack them. I've heard it that way before.
2006-09-25 16:55:03 · answer #4 · answered by MoMoney23 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In football, the defensive player "sacks the quarterback". That means the quarterback is tackled with the football.
In sex, it means to go to bed with the opposite sex. You go "in the sack".
In a job, it means you got fired.
So, I guess it depends on the context of your discussion.
2006-09-25 16:55:49 · answer #5 · answered by rasckal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To fire a person from his job or duties. I have heard this termed used in Britain but rarely in the US.
2006-09-25 16:52:01 · answer #6 · answered by iraq51 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To force lay off or more accurately just to fire a worker from job. A European (Latin/French) informal/slang.
2006-09-25 16:54:02 · answer #7 · answered by duncefremen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To fire them from their job.
2006-09-25 16:51:22 · answer #8 · answered by David W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to be fired
2006-09-25 16:52:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
let them go from their job, to be fired.
2006-09-25 16:50:50 · answer #10 · answered by wandering_canuck 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋