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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Way out
Narayanan may be on way out as NSA
Tiwari maybe on way out
I wonder what "way out" means in this context.
What I understood from their contexts is that "they are going to be deposed from their current post".
Actually, they are headlines of the following two sources respectively :
http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20100115/1416/tnl-narayanan-may-be-on-way-out-as-nsa_1.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Tiwari-may-be-on-way-out/articleshow/5379239.cms
Tiwari maybe on way out
I wonder what "way out" means in this context.
What I understood from their contexts is that "they are going to be deposed from their current post".
Actually, they are headlines of the following two sources respectively :
http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20100115/1416/tnl-narayanan-may-be-on-way-out-as-nsa_1.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Tiwari-may-be-on-way-out/articleshow/5379239.cms
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" If the coach of a sports team keeps losing games and is about to be fired, he's on the way out. In the case you cite, a change in politics may be the reason. In the US, when we change from a Republican administration to a Democratic one, many of the top jobs go to Democrats, so the Republicans who had the jobs before are on the way out.
- " If the coach of a sports team keeps losing games and is about to be fired, he's on the way out.
- In the case you cite, a change in politics may be the reason.
- In the US, when we change from a Republican administration to a Democratic one, many of the top jobs go to Democrats, so the Republicans who had the jobs before are on the way out.
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The expression is "on the way out."
If the coach of a sports team keeps losing games and is about to be fired, he's on the way out.
In the case you cite, a change in politics may be the reason. In the US, when we change from a Republican administration to a Democratic one, many of the top jobs go to Democrats, so the Republicans who had the jobs before are on the way out.
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If the coach of a sports team keeps losing games and is about to be fired, he's on the way out.
In the case you cite, a change in politics may be the reason. In the US, when we change from a Republican administration to a Democratic one, many of the top jobs go to Democrats, so the Republicans who had the jobs before are on the way out.
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