词汇 | lit out |
释义 | (redirected from lit out)light outTo flee hastily; to clear out or depart quickly. We lit out for the safe house as soon as we heard the police sirens in the distance. Everyone else started to light out of there when the manager announced he would be taking volunteers for weekend work. light out (of some place) (for some place)Fig. to leave a place in a great hurry for some place. I lit out of there for home as fast as I could. I lit out of there as fast as I could go. light out(for some place) Go to cut out (for some place). light outLeave hastily, run away, as in Here comes the teacher-let's light out. This slangy idiom may allude to the nautical sense, that is, to move or lift anything along. [Slang; mid-1800s] light outv. To leave someplace hastily: With only 30 minutes to get to the airport, we grabbed our bags and lit out. The robbers lit out of the bank once the alarm went off. lights out1. n. bedtime. It’s lights out, kids. Radios off, too! 2. n. death; time to die. (Underworld.) It’s lights out for you, chum. |
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