walk away from

Definitions

1. 1

   To abandon or leave

   To abandon or leave; to shun; to refuse.

   • He decided to walk away from his job after expressing much dissatisfaction with his boss.
   • If you walk away from this offer you will live to regret it.
   • If I walk away from you I'd be the one to hurt
2. 2

   To escape (a mishap, accident, etc.) with minimal or no injury.

   • This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped."
3. 3

   To outpace effortlessly.

   • This blue Camaro looked bad, sounded worse and would run like a raped ape. I have no idea what-all-else Wayne did to this car, but it was a six-cylinder that would walk away from every car I came against.

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