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fold one's tent

verb

Definitions

  1. To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner

    To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner; to disengage; to quit.

    • 1844, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Day is Done" (proem to The Waif), lines 41-44, And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
    • "I won't quietly fold my tent and go away," snapped Sister Catherine.
    • Following the failure of the Quilty forces to obtain the BL/GPA endorsement in June, the PAC folded its tents and did not meet again.

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