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{
"etymology_text": "From fly, to flee or run away, + coop, an enclosure for birds.",
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"present",
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{
"ref": "1910, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 3, in A Texas Ranger:",
"text": "Not liking the accommodations, I took the first chance and flew the coop.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 243:",
"text": "By the time the disk was out, most of Smith had apparently flown the coop; only Gayle and Jerry remained",
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"To depart hastily or unannounced; to escape or flee."
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],
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"(idiomatic) To depart hastily or unannounced; to escape or flee."
],
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"word": "fly the nest"
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"sense": "to depart hastily or flee",
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"idiomatic"
],
"word": "die Fliege machen"
}
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1961 January 6, “Assisi Revisited”, in Time:",
"text": "Explained a Curtiz assistant: \"We had three ravens in Assisi; one died of cold, and another flew the coop.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To escape from a pen or similar enclosure."
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],
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"(of a bird) To escape from a pen or similar enclosure."
],
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"_dis1": "13 87",
"code": "de",
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"sense": "the escape of a bird from an enclosure",
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}
]
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"etymology_text": "From fly, to flee or run away, + coop, an enclosure for birds.",
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},
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"ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 243:",
"text": "By the time the disk was out, most of Smith had apparently flown the coop; only Gayle and Jerry remained",
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"(idiomatic) To depart hastily or unannounced; to escape or flee."
],
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"ref": "1961 January 6, “Assisi Revisited”, in Time:",
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}
],
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"sense": "to depart hastily or flee",
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"idiomatic"
],
"word": "die Fliege machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "the escape of a bird from an enclosure",
"word": "entfliegen"
}
],
"word": "fly the coop"
}
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