Limoges was so far from the WWI front line that when the Commander-in-Chief of the French Forces wanted to get rid of useless senior staff, he'd position them there. The town name became synonymous with dismissal - in English you fire someone, in French you limoge them.
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Limoges was so far from the WWI front line that when the Commander-in-Chief of the French Forces wanted to get rid of useless senior staff, he'd position them there. The town name became synonymous with dismissal - in English you fire someone, in French you limoge them.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limoger