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slink away
Idioms and Phrases
Also, slink off . Depart furtively, as in The shoplifter slipped an item into his coat pocket and slunk away , or After that severe scolding, she slunk off . This term employs slink in the sense of “move stealthily,” a usage dating from the late 1300s.Example Sentences
"I tried to slink away and he was reeling me back," Annie says.
So after all that screeching, it’s likely that many Republicans are going to slink away from their war on digital fentanyl.
Trump ought to get whomped by President Biden in November and then slink away.
Is it rude to select “no tip,” then slink away with your drink?
I know the Blue Angels air show has a long tradition in Seattle, evoking pride and awe in the expertise of Boeing engineers, but I sat through the Blue Angels’ practice run recently and beside scaring the baby and making the cat slink away to find a place to hide, it makes me think that maybe it’s time to retire this tradition.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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