take a powder

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take a powder
(Canadian and American Slang) disappear, go away, run away


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take a powder
Verb
1. disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)
(synonym) skip town
(hypernym) disappear, vanish, go away



Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance DictionaryDownload this dictionary
Take a powder
Used in the context of general equities. Temporarily cancel an order or indication in a stock by a customer, while unrepresented interest still exists. See: back on the shelf, sidelines.

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ENGLISH IDIOMS 2.EDITION DictionaryDownload this dictionary
take a powder
pretend to lose, take a dive, throw a game When I wrestle with my sons, I sometimes take a powder just to give them confidence.

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take a powder
Synonyms and related words:
absquatulate, beat it, blow, decamp, dog it, duck and run, duck out, lam, make off, powder, scram, skedaddle, skin out, skip, skip out, split, take off, vamoose
  

Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.

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