light out

verb

1. informal,  (intr, adverb) to depart quickly, as if being chased

Idioms and Phrases

Leave hastily, run away, as in Here comes the teacher—let's light out. This slangy idiom may allude to the nautical sense, that is, to move or lift anything along. [Slang; mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

It was still light out, for Saint Petersburg is so far north on the globe that on the longest days of the year the sun sets only briefly and it never gets dark at all.

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Bike to dinner Me and my wife love to get on our bikes while it’s still light out, and ride our bikes to a fun restaurant near us and have a nice meal, maybe a couple glasses of wine, and then you’re riding back on your bike in the dark.

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You Dean Mears took the light out of my life.

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"If I was back in the office at 8:30 at night, he'd be like: 'What are you doing here? It's still light out. Go knock on some more doors.'"

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But it’s also standard practice to grant pilots permission to land later than that as long as it’s still light out, he said.

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