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light out

verb

informal��(intr, adverb) to depart quickly, as if being chased

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Idioms and Phrases

Leave hastily, run away, as in Here comes the teacher—let's light out. This slangy idiom may allude to the nautical sense, that is, to move or lift anything along. [Slang; mid-1800s]

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"If I was back in the office at 8:30 at night, he'd be like: '�� are you doing here? It's still light out. Go knock on some more doors.'"

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But it’s also standard practice to grant pilots permission to land later than that as long as it’s still light out, he said.

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“The day doesn’t end, you just give up and go to bed when it’s still light out.”

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“Your whole past is dark, the government that took the light out of the eyes. … We go from the bottom of the pyramid and knock to the top. … Forty-four years of your government, this is the year of failure,” one verse said.

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“It took some light out of me.”

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light opera light pen

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