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slink away
Idioms and Phrases
Also, slink off . Depart furtively, as in The shoplifter slipped an item into his coat pocket and slunk away , or After that severe scolding, she slunk off . This term employs slink in the sense of “move stealthily,” a usage dating from the late 1300s.Example Sentences
So Dennis Swanson, the head of the ABC’s sports division, ordered Lampley to cover Mike Tyson’s first fight on network TV in the hopes, Lampley said, he would embarrass himself and slink away.
To the eternal fury of her critics, Knox eventually decided that rather than slink away because her quirkiness rubbed people the wrong way when she was on trial for murder, she was going to own it all.
"I tried to slink away and he was reeling me back," Annie says.
So after all that screeching, it’s likely that many Republicans are going to slink away from their war on digital fentanyl.
Trump ought to get whomped by President Biden in November and then slink away.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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