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walk away

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walk away (third-person singular simple presentwalks away,present participlewalking away,simple past and past participlewalked away)

(idiomatic) To withdraw from a problematic situation.
Company lawyers told him towalk away from the deal.
- 2022 September 21, Chris Green tells Nick Brodrick, “It's absolutely my favourite train”, inRAIL, number966, page35:
  Green adds: "Luckily, nobody didwalk away. Railtrack stayed with it, so did the government, so did the Strategic Rail Authority.
- 2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell”, inThe Guardian‎^[1],→ISSN, archived fromthe original on21 July 2025:
  When John Lithgow was announced as Dumbledore, he revealed that a friend had sent him a link to an article entitled: “An open letter to John Lithgow: Pleasewalk away from Harry Potter.”
(intransitive, colloquial, euphemistic) Of an object, to gomissing or bestolen.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
To free oneself from a debt such as amortgage by abandoning thecollateral to the lender. To make astrategic default.
(idiomatic) To survive a challenging or dangerous situation without harm.
The football teamwalked away with a 1-0 victory.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seewalk,‎away.
I took one last look at the house andwalked away.
- 2012,BioWare,Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:
  Shepard: Mordin,walk away.
  Mordin: Can't do that, Shepard.
  Shepard: I don't have a choice here.Walk away, or I will fire.