Jack Out of Office

One no longer in office.

I am left out; for me nothing remains.
But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office

Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI., I. I.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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