bail out on

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bail out on

verb bails out on · bailing out on · bailed out on

  1. idiomatic, transitive To abandon (someone or something). But he's just kind of jumped ship. He's bailed out on Basingstoke as a town without even warning us.

    Similar: leave in the lurch, walk out on

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@misc{bail_out_on_2026,
  title = {bail out on},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bail%20out%20on},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}