walk out

[walk out] {v.}

1. To go on strike.

* /When the company would not give them higher pay, the workers walked out./

2. To leave suddenly; especially to desert.

* /He didn't say he wasn't coming back; he just walked out./

- Often used informally with "on".

* /The man walked out on his wife and children./

Compare: LEAVE FLAT, LEAVE IN THE LURCH.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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