Name: 英語の家庭教師ニックPのイディオム (289) Dock One's Pay (English Tutor Nick P Idioms (289) Dock One's Pay)
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Hi this is Tutor Nick  P and this is Idioms  289.  The . today is to dock

someone's pay. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If a company or boss docks

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a workers pay,  he removes a part or percentage of his or her pay usually as

a punishment because they did something wrong. Okay. And they believed it deserved

actually maybe cutting part of the pay.  All right. Let's continue. The origin of

this phrase comes from an Old English definition you know,  of dock of course,

that meant to cut something short. This use also relates to when some people

actually cut a dog's tail short for style. Yeah.  I have seen this done.  I

always kind of felt sorry for some poor dogs and I always wonder why people

did that. But perhaps I guess they just liked that style on the ... on the

animal. Okay. Good. It is also used among horse breeders.  I guess some horse breeders

do this to horses'  tails as well. This use dates back to the 14th century. Even

today the part of an animal's tail that is left after it has been shortened is

called a dock. Okay.  All right. We just have a couple of

examples you know,  to show this use here.  So example number one.  If you are more

than 10 minutes late the company will dock your pay for an hour. Yeah. So you

know , maybe this is to make sure everybody gets to work on time. So if you

end up just over 10 minutes late well they'll cut a whole hours pay from you

to try to you know make sure you don't do that. Okay. And number two here. The boss

is docking Jack's pay to reimburse the company for all the fragile items he

knocked over and broke. Yeah. So maybe he had an accident and he broke some

expensive stuff at the company and you know,  he's docking his pay.

until he pays back for all the damage that he did for the accident that he

caused at work. Okay. , I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Thank you for your