Talk:sneak out

RFD discussion: June–November 2018

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sneak out

Kinda dumb, it's just sneak + out (like jump out of the hot-air balloon, or fall out of the rollercoaster, or wriggle out of obligations). Equinox ◑ 03:16, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Delete. I almost wanted to keep it because in my mind the phrase sneak out by itself implies sneaking out of one's own home ("We had to keep a close eye on Ryan because he was always sneaking out."), which might make it not exactly sum of parts, but this entry includes all venues of leaving surreptitiously, which does make it SoP whilst also accounting for my definition above. --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 13:38, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Well, it has a couple of older brothers, sneak in and sneak up on. DonnanZ (talk) 09:54, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Good point. Sneak up seems to operate the same way as sneak out, and probably should be investigated together with it. Sneak up on may have a better case for inclusion, but still might be accountable by means of sneak + up (sense 12) + on (sense 2). But it's up to Equinox if he wants to discuss those as well. --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 14:06, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

And then there's sneak away. But in the absence of any other RFDs for sneak derivatives I would keep it. DonnanZ (talk) 10:41, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

I think it's better that we consider them all then keep one simply because we didn't. See #sneak in below. --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 13:57, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Delete per proponent. Per utramque cavernam 10:04, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Deleted. bd2412 T 03:54, 4 November 2018 (UTC)