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walk out

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walk someone out
to accompany someone out, walking. I'll walk you out. The exit is hard to find. Please let me walk you out so you don't get lost.
See also: out, walk

walk out (on something)

Fig. to leave a performance (of something by someone). We didn't like the play at all, so we walked out. John was giving a very dull speech, and a few people even walked out on him.
See also: out, walk

walk out (on something)

Fig. to leave a performance (of something by someone). We didn't like the play at all, so we walked out. John was giving a very dull speech, and a few people even walked out on him.
See also: out, walk

walk out
1. to leave an event before it is finished It was such a bad movie that I felt like walking out in the first fifteen minutes.
2. to refuse to work because of a disagreement with your employer Airline pilots are threatening to walk out next week.
See also: out, walk


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I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in.
Allen will put on his greatcoat when he goes, but I dare say he will not, for he had rather do anything in the world than walk out in a greatcoat; I wonder he should dislike it, it must be so comfortable.
But they to him were denizens of Romance, who must keep to the corner he had assigned them, pictures that must not walk out of their frames.
 
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