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light out
verb
- informal.intr, adverb to depart quickly, as if being chased
Idioms and Phrases
Leave hastily, run away, as in Here comes the teacher—let's light out . This slangy idiom may allude to the nautical sense, that is, to move or lift anything along. [ Slang ; mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Dr. Silence leaned forward, opened the lantern and blew the light out.
Sometimes that dyspepsia took him bad, and when he had one of those spells he'd light out into poetry scandalous.
The mate complied, sending a glare of light out over the dark waters.
I'm packing up; going to light out in the morning and get in on the end of my family's vacation.
The girl finally succeeded in blowing the light out, and everybody yelled.
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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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