“Send someone packing”in other languages
Dismiss someone abruptly.
English
French
Russian
EnglishFrenchRussianSame idea, different pictures
English tells them to pack their bags; Shakespeare already used it. French sends them off to graze, envoyer paître, like an animal put out to pasture.
Russian chases them out “in three necks”, гнать в три шеи, with no ceremony at all.
More sayings in other languages
- Set one's sights on something
- Shoot oneself in the foot
- Have a short fuse
- Shoulder to shoulder
- Sit on one's hands
- Sit on the fence
- Sitting pretty
- Six of one, half a dozen of the other
- Skate on thin ice