out of a job
Having lost one's job; unemployed.
After the management automated the factory, the machinists were out of a job.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Franklin D. Roosevelt
No one every listened themselves out of a job. Calvin Coolidge
If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused. Barbara Steele
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong. James Surowiecki
As a cancer doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job. Daniel Kraft
If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job. Glenn Hoddle