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duck out
Idioms and Phrases
Leave hurriedly or secretly; evade responsibility. For example, If I can I'll duck out of the office early , or He simply ducked out on his entire family . This slangy expression originated in the late 1800s simply as duck, out being added about 1930.Example Sentences
If Archie got the express company's money—en hit sorta looks like he did—he was smart enough to 'duck out' with hit.
Now, one of you boys duck out to the shaft and see that he doesn't get up.
Ralph took his way down Main Street, feeling, as he expressed it, a good deal like a duck out of water.
I wouldn't leave him a chance to duck out o' this because I wouldn't tell nobody where we was goin'.
"Tried to duck out the back door," the deputy explained to his brother officers.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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