What is the origin of saying "you're fired" to terminate employment?

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notmrjohn

The verb sense of "sack, dismiss" is first recorded 1885 in Amer.Eng., probably from a play on the two meanings of DISCHARGE: "to dismiss from a position," and "to fire a gun."

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