moonlight flit

British  

noun

1. Often shortened to: moonlight.  informal a hurried departure at night, esp from rented accommodation to avoid payment of rent owed

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Example Sentences

He had to be patient and operate in extraordinary secrecy, along with scores of people, to orchestrate what was to appear as a sudden moonlight flit.

From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2011

I remember vividly Deirdre Langton's husband, Ray, doing a moonlight flit on a coach at Manchester bus station, leaving Deirdre alone with monstrous child Tracy.

From The Guardian • Dec. 3, 2010

But when it was known next day that Jun Johnson and his wife had "done a moonlight flit," it was generally agreed that these suspicions were confirmed.

From The Black Opal by Prichard, Katharine Susannah

She had meant to do what is called in the Five Towns "a moonlight flit."

From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold

Outside, a clear bright sun glancing down through an atmosphere sparkling with frost, upon as fine a road for a sleigh-ride as ever tempted green-mountain boys and girls for a moonlight flit.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various