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go their separate ways

idiom
Meaning

Of two or more people, to cease travelling or spending time together; to depart with different destinations.


Examples
SIMPLE

After the movie, we went our separate ways.

CONTEXTUAL

The two colleagues decided to go their separate ways after working together for five years.

COMPLEX

Following the conclusion of the long project, the team members went their separate ways, each pursuing new opportunities in different cities across the country.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    all dressed up and nowhere to go

    Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.

  2. 02

    all systems go

    Everything is ready.

  3. 03

    as you go

    While one is doing (something); as one progresses.

  4. 04

    boldly go where no man has gone before

    To break new ground.

  5. 05

    come and go

    To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.

  6. 06

    cut both ways

    To have both benefits and drawbacks.

  7. 07

    don't go there

    Do not broach that topic.

  8. 08

    easy come, easy go

    Easily won and easily lost (usually said when resigned to a loss; something that comes in the same way, goes in the same way)

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