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[n,vs,vi]
▶ running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt) ▶ moonlight flit ▶ skipping town overnight ▶ upping and leaving under the cover of darkness ▶ midnight vanishing act |
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| 8. | A 2022-06-22 10:35:31 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...> | |
| Comments: | too many? the last two could go I suppose |
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| Diff: | @@ -19,0 +20 @@ +<gloss>skipping town overnight</gloss> |
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| 7. | A 2022-06-22 04:56:06 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | my bad, misread it, adding it back. |
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| Diff: | @@ -18,0 +19 @@ +<gloss>moonlight flit</gloss> |
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| 6. | A* 2022-06-22 04:23:50 Opencooper | |
| Refs: | * flit (OED): *British* leave one's home or move, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations. * https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moonlight flit * https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/do-a-moonlight-flit * https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/moonlight-flit |
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| Comments: | "Skipping" was okay, as in "skipping town". The term that the JEs are using is "moonlight flit", not "flight" (was also unfamiliar to me). But the glosses you replaced these with are clear and unambiguous, so no harm done. |
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| 5. | A 2022-06-22 02:38:06 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| 4. | A* 2022-06-22 02:31:42 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Flight night flight is potentially confusing koj 事情があってそこに住んでいられず、夜の間にこっそり引き払って他に移ること。 daijs ...姿をくらます... shinjirin 夜中にこっそり逃げ出して他の土地へ移ること。 |
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| Comments: | I love "moonlight flight" as a word but it's apparently not an established/at all common expression for this (despite being favored by other EJs) I also like "midnight vanishing act" (prog). only 13 googits but less ambiguous than "moonlight flight" (googling that I actually got some results for airplane flights) |
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| Diff: | @@ -18,3 +18,3 @@ -<gloss>night flight (usu. due to debt)</gloss> -<gloss>skipping out by night</gloss> -<gloss>moonlight flit</gloss> +<gloss>running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt)</gloss> +<gloss>upping and leaving under the cover of darkness</gloss> +<gloss>midnight vanishing act</gloss> |
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