"fold one's tent" meaning in English

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          "text": "1844, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, \"The Day is Done\" (proem to The Waif), lines 41-44,\nAnd the night shall be filled with music,\nAnd the cares that infest the day\nShall fold their tents like the Arabs,\nAnd as silently steal away."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1982 September 27, “No Mercy for the Sisters”, in Time:",
          "text": "\"I won't quietly fold my tent and go away,\" snapped Sister Catherine.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1983 December 17, William J. Hutchinson, “Whither Bl/GPA?”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 6:",
          "text": "Following the failure of the Quilty forces to obtain the BL/GPA endorsement in June, the PAC folded its tents and did not meet again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January 6, Terry Neal, “Talking Points Live”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2008-08-10:",
          "text": "There are a good number of Democrats who are unhappy with John Kerry, thinking he folded his tent without a fight.",
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        "To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner; to disengage; to quit."
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          "quit",
          "quit"
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        "(idiomatic) To withdraw, especially in a discreet manner; to disengage; to quit."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chicken out"
        },
        {
          "word": "cut and run"
        },
        {
          "word": "stand down"
        }
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          "text": "1844, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, \"The Day is Done\" (proem to The Waif), lines 41-44,\nAnd the night shall be filled with music,\nAnd the cares that infest the day\nShall fold their tents like the Arabs,\nAnd as silently steal away."
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          "ref": "1982 September 27, “No Mercy for the Sisters”, in Time:",
          "text": "\"I won't quietly fold my tent and go away,\" snapped Sister Catherine.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1983 December 17, William J. Hutchinson, “Whither Bl/GPA?”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 6:",
          "text": "Following the failure of the Quilty forces to obtain the BL/GPA endorsement in June, the PAC folded its tents and did not meet again.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 January 6, Terry Neal, “Talking Points Live”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2008-08-10:",
          "text": "There are a good number of Democrats who are unhappy with John Kerry, thinking he folded his tent without a fight.",
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      ],
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      "word": "chicken out"
    },
    {
      "word": "cut and run"
    },
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      "word": "stand down"
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  "word": "fold one's tent"
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