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Old 03-04-2005, 09:49 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by The_FD
Tout dépend du contexte bien sûr mais pourquoi ne pas simplement employé "viré" ou "mis à la porte" ?
But wouldn't these two expressions correspond more closely to the English "kicked out"?
"Kicked around" seems to me to be figurative, and probably derives from football usage. To be kicked around means to be treated (or maltreated) like an object...
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