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walk out

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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: walk
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I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in.
Walking by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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.
Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context
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.
Howards End by Forster, E. M. View in context
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