Abandon Phrases

Phrases

• Abandon hope all ye who enter here (warning from Dante's Divine Comedy)
• Abandon ship
• Absent without leave
• All or nothing
• At the drop of a hat
• Bail out
• By your leave
• Cast out
• Chocolate drop
• Crime of passion
• Cut your losses
• Don't leave home without it (American Express advertising slogan)
• Don't leave your manners on the doorstep
• Drop It Like It's Hot (Snoop Dogg song)
• Drop a bombshell
• Drop a brick
• Drop a bundle
• Drop a clanger
• Drop a dime
• Drop a hint
• Drop a sprog
• Drop by
• Drop dead
• Drop dead gorgeous
• Drop dead list
• Drop down dead
• Drop in on
• Drop in the bucket
• Drop in the ocean
• Drop it like a hot potato
• Drop like a stone
• Drop me a line
• Drop off
• Drop someone off
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Drop the ball
• Drop your aitches
• Drop your bundle
• Drop your cookies
• Drop your drawers
• Drop your guard
• Drop your pants
• Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost
• Flash crash (the sudden drop in the Dow Jones Index in 2010)
• French leave
• Gardening leave
• Gay abandon
• Get the drop on
• Given up for dead
• Go Greyhound and leave the driving to us (Greyhound Lines advertising slogan)
• Good to the last drop (Maxwell House Coffee advertising slogan)

• Grand passion
• Granny dumping
• Hit the bricks (a cursory slang term telling someone to leave)
• Jump ship
• Leave be
• Leave it out
• Leave no child behind (Political slogan)
• Leave no stone unturned
• Leave off
• Leave out
• Leave out door open
• Leave out in the cold
• Leave someone cold
• Leave the door open for
• Leave the gun, take the cannoli (line from The Godfather)
• Leave the nest
• Leave the room
• Leave well enough alone
• Leave your options open
• Leave yourself open
• Left for dead
• Left hanging
• Let it drop
• Like rats leaving a sinking ship
• Love them and leave them
• Make like a tree and leave
• Make little of
• Passion Sunday
• Passion for the road (Mazda advertising slogan)
• Quit while you're ahead
• Ships of the desert
• Shoot through (to leave or abscond)
• Shop 'till you drop
• Softly As I Leave You (Frank Sinatra song)
• Stop drop and roll
• Swing by (slang expression meaning drop in for a visit)
• Take it or leave it
• Take leave of your senses
• That's going to leave a mark
• The Desert Fox (Nickname of Field Marshall Rommel)
• Throw to the wolves
• Turn on, tune in, drop out (A catchphrase from Timothy Leary)
• Waiting for the other shoe to drop
• Wash your hands of it
• Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink
• We'll leave the light on for you (Motel 6 advertising slogan)
• Women and children first
• You can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff (Groucho Marx line)
• You could have heard a pin drop
• You shop, we drop (Tesco home delivery advertising slogan)
• Your potential, our passion (Microsoft advertising slogan)