Idioms

alight from

alight from (something)

To get down from, or off of, something (usually a vehicle). The children alighted from the school bus on the first day of school. We've landed, but we still need to alight from the plane. It takes me forever to alight from the train these days, thanks to this stupid cast on my foot.
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alight from something

to get off something; to get down off something. Almost three hundred people alighted from the plane.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in periodicals archive
A police source, who asked not to be identified for not having been authorized to release a statement to reporters, said the Odicta couple refused to alight from the Ro-Ro vessel so they were able to continue to travel to Aklan.
3 companions of slain Odictas nabbed with guns at Batangas port
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