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peel off

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[peel off] {v.}

To dive away from a group of airplanes in a flight formation; bring one plane down from a group.

* /As the group neared the home base, pilot after pilot peeled off for a landing./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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