"jump ship" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "text": "As soon as the battleship docked in Singapore, Roger jumped ship, never to return.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To depart from a ship, especially without permission."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) To depart from a ship, especially without permission."
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "word": "abandon ship"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "depart from a ship",
          "word": "離船"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "líchuán",
          "sense": "depart from a ship",
          "word": "离船"
        },
        {
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "depart from a ship",
          "word": "棄船"
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          "_dis1": "97 3",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qìchuán",
          "sense": "depart from a ship",
          "word": "弃船"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "97 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "depart from a ship",
          "word": "hypätä laivasta"
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          "text": "I couldn't hack it as a teacher, so I jumped ship and flew back to Australia.",
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          "ref": "2022 January 13, Polly Toynbee, “Finally the Tory papers have caught on that Johnson is a liar – what kept them?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "The few stalwarts praising the prime minister’s non-remorse today will be of small comfort to him, given their ranks include Ann Widdecombe and Patrick O’Flynn of the Express, while another of their ilk, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, has jumped ship altogether.",
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        "To leave something, especially suddenly or rapidly."
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        "(figurative) To leave something, especially suddenly or rapidly."
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      "translations": [
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          "_dis1": "15 85",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "leave suddenly",
          "word": "潛逃"
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        {
          "_dis1": "15 85",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qiántáo",
          "sense": "leave suddenly",
          "word": "潜逃"
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          "_dis1": "15 85",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "leave suddenly",
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          "word": "er tussenuit knijpen"
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          "_dis1": "15 85",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "leave suddenly",
          "word": "hypätä veneestä"
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          "_dis1": "15 85",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "leave suddenly",
          "word": "abbandonare la nave"
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          "text": "The few stalwarts praising the prime minister’s non-remorse today will be of small comfort to him, given their ranks include Ann Widdecombe and Patrick O’Flynn of the Express, while another of their ilk, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, has jumped ship altogether.",
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        "To leave something, especially suddenly or rapidly."
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        "(figurative) To leave something, especially suddenly or rapidly."
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "depart from a ship",
      "word": "離船"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "líchuán",
      "sense": "depart from a ship",
      "word": "离船"
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      "sense": "depart from a ship",
      "word": "棄船"
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    {
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qìchuán",
      "sense": "depart from a ship",
      "word": "弃船"
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      "sense": "depart from a ship",
      "word": "hypätä laivasta"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "leave suddenly",
      "word": "潛逃"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiántáo",
      "sense": "leave suddenly",
      "word": "潜逃"
    },
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      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "leave suddenly",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "leave suddenly",
      "word": "hypätä veneestä"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "leave suddenly",
      "word": "abbandonare la nave"
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