"fly the coop" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fly, to flee or run away, + coop, an enclosure for birds.",
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      "form": "flies the coop",
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      "form": "flew the coop",
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      "form": "flown the coop",
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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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, 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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        "(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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        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "sense": "to depart hastily or flee",
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            "idiomatic"
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          "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.\"",
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        "To escape from a pen or similar enclosure."
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        "(of a bird) To escape from a pen or similar enclosure."
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          "_dis1": "13 87",
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          "sense": "the escape of a bird from an enclosure",
          "word": "entfliegen"
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  "word": "fly the coop"
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  "etymology_text": "From fly, to flee or run away, + coop, an enclosure for birds.",
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      "form": "flies the coop",
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      "form": "flying the coop",
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    {
      "form": "flew the coop",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, page 243",
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        "(idiomatic) To depart hastily or unannounced; to escape or flee."
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        }
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        "(of a bird) To escape from a pen or similar enclosure."
      ],
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      "sense": "to depart hastily or flee",
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      "word": "die Fliege machen"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the escape of a bird from an enclosure",
      "word": "entfliegen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fly the coop"
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