get out while the getting is good

Idioms  

1. Leave while one can or has the chance to, as in He just had a good offer from a rival firm and decided to get out while the getting is good. This colloquial phrase uses get out in the sense of “escape” or “depart.”

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get out while the getting is good

He wants to get out while the getting is good.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2019

In short, she plans to get out while the getting is good, an attitude shared by my mother whose need for control made the Parkinson’s endgame intolerable.

From Salon ● May 25, 2011