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    Leave_someone_holding_the_sack 对比 Give_someone_the_sack
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    • give someone the sack—(coll.) dismiss a person from employment:

      • Raytheon tried to silence him by giving him the sack. Colin has now brought a charge of unfair dismissal to an industrial tribunal.

      leave someone holding the sack—(U.S. coll.) be entrusted with an unwelcome responsibility:

      • Perhaps you didn’t plan to drag me into the case and leave me holding the sack.
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