walk away from

English

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Verb

walk away from (third-person singular simple present walks away from, present participle walking away from, simple past and past participle walked away from)

  1. (idiomatic) To abandon or leave; to shun; to refuse.
    He decided to walk away from his job after expressing much dissatisfaction with his boss.
    If you walk away from this offer you will live to regret it.
    • 2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      When John Lithgow was announced as Dumbledore, he revealed that a friend had sent him a link to an article entitled: “An open letter to John Lithgow: Please walk away from Harry Potter.”
  2. (idiomatic) To escape (a mishap, accident, etc.) with minimal or no injury.
    • 1965 November 12, “Auto Racing: Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove”, in Time:
      This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped."
  3. (idiomatic) To outpace effortlessly.
    • 2005, Chuck E. Sanders, The Making of a Minister, page 59:
      This blue Camaro looked bad, sounded worse and would run like a raped ape. I have no idea what-all-else Wayne did to this car, but it was a six-cylinder that would walk away from every car I came against.
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