defect to (something)
defect to (something)
To leave some place, often under repressive conditions and when it is prohibited, and go to another place. I defected to this country after witnessing the atrocities being carried out in my homeland.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
defect to something
to forsake one group and take up with another. Will he defect to the other side? David defected to a small East European country.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- defect to
- ditch (some place)
- fly off
- Mecca for
- barrel in
- barrel in(to)
- come on into (some place)
- come right in
- know place
- know your place