Related Clues:

• Fired, informally
• Split, as logs
• Laid off, as workers
• Cut from the payroll
• Like clayware
• Aroused
• Expelled
• Abruptly dismissed
• Like the Dalai Lama
• Cut from the staff
• Bounced
• Like Napoleon
• Shot, as a cannon
• Gave a pink slip
• Baked in a kiln