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walk out on

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1. walk out on - Verb

2. walk out on - Phrase

Meaning

walk out on (third-person singular simple present walks out on, present participle walking out on, simple past and past participle walked out on)

(informal, transitive) To abandon or desert someone, especially a spouse.

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God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't. Diego Maradona

You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong. Nick Hornby

Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing. Bobby McFerrin

As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in. Benny Goodman

People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed. Karen Carpenter

I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it. Denis Leary

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