walk away
— phrasal verb with walk uk/wɔːk/us/wɑːk/verb
(DIFFICULT SITUATION)
disapproving to stop being involved in a situation because it is difficult to deal with or does not give you any advantages:
You can't just walk away from a marriage at the first sign of a problem.
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Causing something to end
- abandon
- all good things (must) come to an end idiom
- and have done with it idiom
- be over the hump idiom
- bitter
- draw
- knock off (sth)
- lay
- lay sth to rest idiom
- lay the ghost of sth (to rest) idiom
- leave it at that idiom
- leave off (sth/doing sth)
- lift
- raise
- stone-dead
- suppression
- the curtain falls on sth idiom
- to the bitter end idiom
- top sth off
- walk
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(ACCIDENT)
to escape an accident without being badly hurt:
She overturned the car, but walked away from it without a scratch.
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Undamaged, unbroken or in good condition
- (all) in one piece idiom
- be (as) good as new idiom
- be as sound as a bell idiom
- be none the worse idiom
- good
- if it ain't broke, don't fix it idiom
- piece
- repair
- resistant
- safe
- sound
- soundness
- unbroken
- unharmed
- unscathed
- untouched
- vgc
- walk
- well preserved
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