emergency exit

Noun

Meaning

a stairway (often on the outside of a building) that permits exit in the case of fire or other emergency

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So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. Alan Moore

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. You can lock them away...forever." The Joker. Alan Moore

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. Matt Haig

According to Donald K. Slayton 's testimony before the House investigation of the accident, this was based on ease of exit for spacewalks and at the end of flight, rather than for emergency exit. Source: Internet

A 30-year-old man who was flying for the first time thought that opening the plane's emergency exit door before takeoff was a good way to avoid air sickness, according to the South China Morning Post. Source: Internet

One woman was arrested after she opened the emergency exit because it was "too stuffy" Source: Internet

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