The guard was fired for shirking his duty.
•You cannot expect to continue shirking your duty without someone noticing.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
shirk one's duty — {v. phr.} To be negligent or irresponsible. * /If you continue to shirk your duty, you can expect to be fired./ … Dictionary of American idioms
shirk one's duty — index default Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
shirk\ one's\ duty — v. phr. To be negligent or irresponsible. If you continue to shirk your duty, you can expect to be fired … Словарь американских идиом
duty — n. obligation service 1) to assume, take on a duty 2) to carry out, discharge, do, perform one s duty 3) to shirk one s duty 4) an ethical, moral; legal; painful, unpleasant; pleasant duty 5) a civic; official; patriotic; professional duty ;… … Combinatory dictionary
shirk — verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1681 intransitive verb 1. to go stealthily ; sneak 2. to evade the performance of an obligation transitive verb avoid, evade < shirk one s duty > • shirker … New Collegiate Dictionary
shirk — verb 1) she didn t shirk any task Syn: evade, dodge, avoid, get out of, sidestep, shrink from, shun, skip, miss; neglect; informal duck (out of), cop out of, cut 2) no one shirked Syn … Thesaurus of popular words
shirk — ʃɜrk /ʃɜËk v. evade one s duty, avoid fulfilling a responsibility … English contemporary dictionary
Shirk — Shirk, n. One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Shirk — Shirk, v. i. 1. To live by shifts and fraud; to shark. [1913 Webster] 2. To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. [1913 Webster] One of the cities shirked from the league. Byron. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
shirk — 1630s, to practice fraud or trickery, also a noun (1630s, now obs.) a disreputable parasite, perhaps from Ger. schurke scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain (see SHARK (Cf. shark)). Sense of evade one s work or duty first recorded 1785, originally in… … Etymology dictionary
