walk away from

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Verb

walk away from (third-person singular simple present walks away from, present participle walking away from, simple past and past participle walked away from)

1. (idiomatic) To abandon or leave; to shun; to refuse.

   He decided to walk away from his job after expressing much dissatisfaction with his boss.

   If you walk away from this offer you will live to regret it.

2. (idiomatic) To escape (a mishap, accident, etc.) with minimal or no injury.
   • 1965 November 12, “Auto Racing: Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove”, in Time:

     This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h. and walked away from the wreck muttering: "I thought I had stopped."

3. (idiomatic) To outpace effortlessly.
   • 2005, Chuck E. Sanders, The Making of a Minister, page 59:

     This blue Camaro looked bad, sounded worse and would run like a raped ape. I have no idea what-all-else Wayne did to this car, but it was a six-cylinder that would walk away from every car I came against.