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A drowning man
will
clutch at a straw
Abandon
hope all ye who enter here ( warning from Dante's Divine Comedy )
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Abandon
ship
Absent without leave
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Accidents
will
happen
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Act the
part
Against your
will
All I know is what I read in the papers (
Will
Rogers quotation )
All
part
of life's rich pattern
All
part
of life's rich tapestry
Anchors aweigh
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Away with you
Baby
split
Back off
Be off with you
Beat it!
Bend to my
will
Blood
will
out
Boys
will
be boys
Bucket and spade
holiday
Bug off
Bug out
Bugger off
Build a better mousetrap and the world
will
beat a path to your door
Business is like a car, it
will
not run by itself except downhill
Busman's
holiday
But for my own part, it was Greek to me
Butt out
Buzz off
By your leave
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Cast off
Clear off
Cooler heads
will
prevail
Danger,
Will
Robinson ( A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space )
Dark Web ( the
part
of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine )
Deep Web ( the
part
of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine )
Depart
this life
Discretion is the better
part
of valour
Do a bunk
Do a disappearing act
Do a fade
Don't leave home without it ( American Express advertising slogan )
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep
Done a runner
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Drink up
Eat and run
Eats shooots and
leaves
( classic example of the need for punctuation )
Eats, Shoots And
Leaves
( Lynne Truss book )
Elvis has
left
the building
Even a worm
will
turn
Exit stage
left
Exit strategy
F*ck off
Failure to launch
Faith
will
move mountains
Fall out
Fight or flight
Flattery
will
get you everywhere
Flattery
will
get you nowhere
Fly the coop
Fly the nest
For my,
part
For the benefit of Mr.Kite there
will
be a show tonight on trampoline ( Beatles song lyric )
Frasier has
left
the building ( A catchphrase from Frasier )
Free
will
French leave
Gardening leave
Gay
abandon
Get off the dime
Get out of my face
Get out of my hair
Get the hell out of Dodge
Get the sack
Get while the going is good
Get your coat
Get your coat, you've pulled
Get your marching orders
Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It (
Will
Smith song )
Give a man enough rope and he
will
hang himself
go Greyhound and leave the driving to us ( Greyhound Lines advertising slogan )
go fly a kite
go our separate ways
go suck an egg
go tell your mother she wants you
go walkabout
Go, and never darken my towels again ( Groucho Marx line )
Good riddance
Goodbye to all that
Hand in your notice
Hang a
left
Hasten away
Have gun,
will
travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
He
will
give the Devil his due
He
will
never play the piano again
Head for the hills
Heads
will
roll
Hidden Web ( the
part
of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine )
Hightail it
Hit The Road Jack ( Ray Charles song )
Hit the bricks ( a cursory slang term telling someone to leave )
Hit the road Jack
Holiday
cheer ( good feelings during a holiday, especially Christmas )
Holiday
of a lifetime
Holiday
romance
Hop it
Hop off
I
Will
Always Love You ( Whitney Houston song )
I
Will
Survive ( Gloria Gaynor song )
I
will
if you
will
I
will
make you fishers of men
I
will
wear my heart upon my sleeve
I'll be
leaving
you now Sir
I'll give it a miss
I'm outta here
If I tell you I
will
have to shoot you
If anything can go wrong, it
will
If drafted, I
will
not run; if nominated, I
will
not accept; if elected, I
will
not serve
If you build it they
will
come
If you don't stand for something you
will
fall for anything ( Malcolm X quotation )
If you got the munchies, nothing else
will
do! ( Hostess potato chips advertising slogan )
If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer
will
cure that headache ( Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan )
If you lie down with dogs, you
will
get up with fleas
If you're not a
part
of the solution, you're
part
of the problem
Back off
Be off with you
Beat it!
Bend to my
will
Blood
will
out
Boys
will
be boys
Bucket and spade
holiday
Bug off
Bug out
Bugger off
Build a better mousetrap and the world
will
beat a path to your door
Business is like a car, it
will
not run by itself except downhill
Busman's
holiday
But for my own part, it was Greek to me
Butt out
Buzz off
By your leave
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Cast off
Clear off
Cooler heads
will
prevail
Danger,
Will
Robinson ( A catchphrase from The Robot In Lost In Space )
Dark Web ( the
part
of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine )
Deep Web ( the
part
of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine )
Depart
this life
Discretion is the better
part
of valour
Do a bunk
Do a disappearing act
Do a fade
Don't leave home without it ( American Express advertising slogan )
Don't leave your manners on the doorstep
Done a runner
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Drink up
Eat and run
Eats shooots and
leaves
( classic example of the need for punctuation )
Eats, Shoots And
Leaves
( Lynne Truss book )
Elvis has
left
the building
Even a worm
will
turn
Exit stage
left
Exit strategy
F*ck off
Failure to launch
Faith
will
move mountains
Fall out
Fight or flight
Flattery
will
get you everywhere
Flattery
will
get you nowhere
Fly the coop
Fly the nest
For my,
part
For the benefit of Mr.Kite there
will
be a show tonight on trampoline ( Beatles song lyric )
Frasier has
left
the building ( A catchphrase from Frasier )
Free
will
French leave
Gardening leave
Gay
abandon
Get off the dime
Get out of my face
Get out of my hair
Get the hell out of Dodge
Get the sack
Get while the going is good
Get your coat
Get your coat, you've pulled
Get your marching orders
Gettin' Jiggy Wit' It (
Will
Smith song )
Give a man enough rope and he
will
hang himself
go Greyhound and leave the driving to us ( Greyhound Lines advertising slogan )
go fly a kite
go our separate ways
go suck an egg
go tell your mother she wants you
go walkabout
Go, and never darken my towels again ( Groucho Marx line )
Good riddance
Goodbye to all that
Hand in your notice
Hang a
left
Hasten away
Have gun,
will
travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
He
will
give the Devil his due
He
will
never play the piano again
Head for the hills
Heads
will
roll
Hidden Web ( the
part
of the World Wide Web that is not indexed by search engine )
Hightail it
Hit The Road Jack ( Ray Charles song )
Hit the bricks ( a cursory slang term telling someone to leave )
Hit the road Jack
Holiday
cheer ( good feelings during a holiday, especially Christmas )
Holiday
of a lifetime
Holiday
romance
Hop it
Hop off
I
Will
Always Love You ( Whitney Houston song )
I
Will
Survive ( Gloria Gaynor song )
I
will
if you
will
I
will
make you fishers of men
I
will
wear my heart upon my sleeve
I'll be
leaving
you now Sir
I'll give it a miss
I'm outta here
If I tell you I
will
have to shoot you
If anything can go wrong, it
will
If drafted, I
will
not run; if nominated, I
will
not accept; if elected, I
will
not serve
If you build it they
will
come
If you don't stand for something you
will
fall for anything ( Malcolm X quotation )
If you got the munchies, nothing else
will
do! ( Hostess potato chips advertising slogan )
If you keep late hours for Society's sake, Bromo-Seltzer
will
cure that headache ( Bromo-Seltzer advertising slogan )
If you lie down with dogs, you
will
get up with fleas
If you're not a
part
of the solution, you're
part
of the problem