take flight

Idioms and Phrases

Also, take wing . Run away, flee, go away, as in When the militia arrived, the demonstrators took flight , or The tenant took wing before paying the rent . The first idiom derives from the earlier take one's flight , dating from the late 1300s, and was first recorded in 1435. The variant was first recorded in 1704.

Related Words

• abandon
• depart
• die
• die out
• dissipate
• dissolve
• escape
• evaporate
• expire
• fade
• flee
• fly
• go
• leave
• melt
• perish
• recede
• retire
• retreat
• sink