cancel out of (something)
cancel out of (something)
To cease one's involvement in something. I had to cancel out of the play when I realized that its rehearsals conflicted with softball practice.
See also: cancel, of, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
cancel someone out of something
and cancel someone out1. to eliminate someone from something (as from a list of names). We had to cancel them out. We canceled out all the people who did not show up.
2. Sl. to eliminate someone; to kill someone. The drug lord threatened to cancel out his former partner for testifying against him.
See also: cancel, of, out
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- leave home
- draw the curtain on (something)
- draw the curtain over (something)
- have done
- have done with
- have done with (someone or something)
- be/have done with somebody/something
- get while the gettin’s good
- get while the getting is good
- get while the getting’s good