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by rahimnathwani 2003 days ago
Your comment reminded me of the phrase 炒鱿鱼, which means to fire someone. I googled it to find a good explanation. This page[0] says the meaning is from:

to fry a squid --> fried squids curl up --> to roll up the bedclothes and leave --> to be fired

And of course, it can be used passively with 被: 我被炒鱿鱼了

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%82%92%E9%AD%B7%E9%AD%9A