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 Translation for 'to sack sb' from English to Norwegian
å sparke noen [uform.]to sack sb. [coll.]
jobber
å si opp noen
to sack sb. [coll.]
jobber
å gi sparken [uform.]
to sack sb. [coll.]
3 Words
jobber
å si opp noen
to give sb. the sack [coll.] [idiom]
Partial Matches
sekk {m}sack
noen kan ikke få nok av noen/noesb. can't get enough of sb./sth.
noen/noe er svaret på noen/noesb./sth. is the answer to sb./sth.
unverified å gi noen/noe videre til noento pass sb./sth. round to sb.
å forvandle noen/noe til noen/noeto turn sb./sth. into sb./sth.
noen liker å kalle noen/noe ...sb. likes to call sb./sth. ...
å oppkalle noen/noe etter noen/noeto name sb./sth. after sb./sth.
å advare (noen) mot noen/noeto warn (sb.) against sb./sth.
å forestille noen for noento introduce sb. to sb.
noen forventetsb. expected
å støte ut noen [ekskludere]to exclude sb.
å støte noen fra seg [fig.]to alienate sb.
intern.journ.
å henge ut noen
to expose sb.
å klemme noen [å omfavne noen]to hug sb.
[noen] kunnesb. could
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å bestikke noento bribe sb.
unverified å fingre noento finger sb.
noen {pron}somebody <sb.>
å gjøre noen til latterto mock sb.
å drive gjøn med noento mock sb.
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Usage Examples English
  • Laurie discovers that the board wants to sack him (arising from a long grudge held against Laurie by Jock), so Laurie inspires Geoff to start playing well.
  • In 296, Chlorus mounted an invasion of Britain that prompted Allectus's Frankish mercenaries to sack Londinium.
  • Later, he blames party chairman Lord "Teddy" Billsborough (Nicholas Selby) for leaking an internal poll showing a drop in Tory numbers, leading Collingridge to sack him.
  • However, after a good start to the 2016/17 season, a poor run of form prompted the club's board to sack manager Daniel Stendel, and appoint Andre Breitenreiter as their new manager.
  • A 2–0 Boxing Day home defeat by Notts County prompted the committee (Forest had no board of directors then) to sack Brown.

  • A legend says that when Drake ransacked the port, he was disappointed with the scant plunder, and proceeded to enter the churches in fury to sack them and urinate on the goblets.
  • Colleague Roy Hattersley credited her with saving his career by insisting he remain her junior Minister when Harold Wilson attempted to sack him.
  • By the end of 1917, Lloyd George felt able to assert authority over the generals and at the end of the year was able to sack the First Sea Lord Admiral Jellicoe.
  • A British fleet anchored off Frankfort in 1814 on its way to sack Bangor and Hampden.
  • In April 1965, Senator Robert Kennedy during a visit to the White House advised Johnson to sack Rusk and replace him with Bill Moyers.

  • The Royalists proceeded to sack the town. This galvanised sentiment in the City of London against a Royalist occupation.
  • This prompted the enraged Assyrian king Sennacherib to invade and subjugate Elam and Chaldea and to sack Babylon, laying waste to and largely destroying the city.
  • However, during the 850s, Muhammad I Abu 'l-Abbas led the Arab-Muslim to sack the city.
  • After Miltiades (the general of the Greek forces) defeated Darius' Persian forces, the Persians decided to sail from Marathon to Athens in order to sack the unprotected city.
  • When Heath telephoned Margaret Thatcher to tell her that he was going to sack Powell, she responded: "I really thought that it was better to let things cool down for the present rather than heighten the crisis".

  • Marino had a unique ability to read the defenses quickly before setting up to throw, and his skill of quickly releasing the ball made it very difficult for defenders to sack him.
  • Soon afterwards, Heath telephoned Margaret Thatcher to inform her that he was going to sack Powell from the Shadow cabinet; she recalled that she "really thought that it was better to let things cool down for the present rather than heighten the crisis".
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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