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vote with one's feet



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Idioms and Phrases

Indicate one's disapproval by walking out or emigrating, as in The service was so bad that we decided to vote with our feet , or Thousands of Hong Kong residents voted with their feet and left before the Chinese takeover . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]

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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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