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.

Example Sentences

Clive Irving on the surprising precedent for letting the 787 take flight.

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A libation that would not weigh our hero down, but could take flight right alongside the Green Lantern himself.

From The Daily Beast

That snap was the signal for his blustering to take flight for he was an arrant coward at heart.

From Project Gutenberg

There were, of course, some unhappy people who could not bear even that gentle motion, and had to take flight to the cabin.

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We have bad weather here, and I am not safe from visitors; so I must take flight in order to be alone.

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And the winds were so cold on this northerly coast that George was not sorry, preferring rather to take flight southward.

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Except for the vanguard, which had been the first to take flight, the English army was entirely destroyed.

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Related Words

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