Useful Idioms - part 7

(1) Get the sack = to be dismissed from job. ( has an allusion to tradesmen, who owned their own tools and took them with him in a bag or sack when they were dismissed from employment).

• The Deputy Manager got the sack for incompetence and financial mismanagement.

(2) Head-hunt = identify and approach a suitable person employed elsewhere.

• Jorty was head-hunted as MD of a leading Commercial Bank.
• Head-hunting is a form of recruitment and selection.
• He was head-hunted by a rival company for one of their top jobs.
• Successful managers are headhunted from larger companies.