go away
verb
(intr, adverb) to leave, as when starting from home on holiday
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Historical Examples of go away
Reuben Smith's blowing his go-away horn, and I want to see—Oh, yes!
The Brass Bound BoxEvelyn Raymond
A pair of “go-away” birds, uttering their cat-like call, darted from tree to tree, keeping ever a short distance before her.
John Ames, Native CommissionerBertram Mitford
I don't allude so much to the sparrows and such stay-at-homes as to my migratory, or go-away birds.
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