do a moonlight flit
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To depart hastily at night, typically to avoid paying money that one owes. I can't afford the rent this month, so we need to do a moonlight flit!
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do a moonlight flit
make a hurried, usually nocturnal, removal or change of abode, especially in order to avoid paying your rent. informalMake a moonlight flitting is recorded from the early 19th century and appears to have originated in northern England or Scotland. The expression is now often shortened to do a moonlight .
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do a moonlight ˈflit
(British English, informal) leave the place where you have been living in quickly and secretly, usually to avoid paying your debts, rent, etc: When I called to get the money she owed me, I found she’d done a moonlight flit.Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017