Idioms linked to “목01” · Linked dictionary word
English rendering Dismiss someone Literal translation: “Strike someone's neck”
Dismiss someone from work.
Dictionary example 1
인사과장은 불필요한 업무를 담당하는 사람들의 목을 치기 위해 사전 조사를 하고 있다.
Read the meanings, trace, then cover above the masking line and write. Uncover, choose a meaning, and make your own sentence.
Writing text목을 치다
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stab someone in the throat To stab the neck with a knife or the like. 
warm up one’s voice To prepare one’s voice before traditional singing, a song, a speech, or the like. 
2 meanings Have one’s life or job in danger Face a mortal crisis 
Be stiff-necked Refuse readily to yield to others and be very obstinate 
2 meanings Shared · 4 Be killed or fired Be killed. 
have one’s position on the line To be in danger of losing one’s position. 
2 meanings Shared · 4 Be killed or removed from office Be killed 
With desperate longing With intense anxious longing. 
choke with sorrow For sorrow to well up. 
2 meanings Survive; hang on to a position Remain alive. 
Shared · 4 wait with desperate longing To wait with intense longing and anxiety. 
Be fired Be dismissed from a workplace 
At the top of one’s voice With all the voice one can muster 
Be very thirsty Feel intense thirst. 
Raise one's voice Raise one's voice. 
sing at the top of one’s voice To sing in a loud voice. 
Shared · 2 Lose one’s job Vulgarly, come to lose one’s job 
shrink back in embarrassment The manner of drawing in one’s neck out of embarrassment or shame. 
Shrink back Of something or its momentum, shrink back. 
have one’s crime exposed For one’s wrongdoing to be revealed. Browse in Hangul order.
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