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part company

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part company (with someone)
1. to disagree. That is an issue on which many people part company with the president.
2. to end a relationship. Rick and I parted company a long time ago, and I'm seeing someone else now.
See also: company, part
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In the midst of the prayer a fly had lit on the back of the pew in front of him and tortured his spirit by calmly rubbing its hands together, embracing its head with its arms, and polishing it so vigorously that it seemed to almost part company with the body, and the slender thread of a neck was exposed to view; scraping its wings with its hind legs and smoothing them to its body as if they had been coat-tails; going through its whole toilet as tranquilly as if it knew it was perfectly safe.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
I think, therefore, that the time has come to part company with Captain Nemo.
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
If I capsized now, well, we might go to the bottom together; otherwise the hen-coop and I should not part company in a hurry; and I thought, I felt, that she would float.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
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