desert for

desert (someone or something) for (someone or something)

To leave or abandon someone or something for someone or something else. After years of being underpaid, she finally deserted her corporate job. I deserted my homeland for a country that had more opportunities available to me.
See also: desert
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

desert (someone or something) for (someone or something else)

to leave someone for someone else; to leave something or some place for some other thing or place. She deserted her husband for another man. Many retirees have deserted northern states for the warmer climates of the South.
See also: desert
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • bird has flown, the
  • beware of
  • beware of (someone or something)
  • be rough on (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
There has been no record of rain in certain parts of the desert for over 400 years since humans began keeping records, making it the driest desert on Earth.
Rain Turns Desert Pink!
A revealing fact about this desert is that nomadic Bedouin tribes have traveled through the Arabian Desert for thousands of years.
DESERTS IN THE WORLD
Although she has moved on and embraced other regions of the world, she is currently organizing an expedition in Siberia and she admits that the decision to take leave of the desert for good is one she cannot make: "The desert is terrible and cruel and yet so lovely that sometimes the heart is too small to encompass its beauty."
A passion for the desert
Our destination is High Desert Test Sites, a project providing alternative space in the Southern California desert for more than thirty artists to make and show experimental work.
Under the sun: Nico Israel on high desert test sites
We ask for the courage to enter the Lenten desert for 40 days and to examine, sometimes coolly, sometimes more passionately, the ways in which the dark side strives for possession of our souls.
Darth night of the soul: Lent is the time when Darth Vader and other princes of darkness come to church. (testaments)
Jernstedt chuckles at the question of what dramas she endured during her quest in the desert for the elusive Welwitschia.
Torn to ribbons in the desert: botanists puzzle over one of earth's oddest plants. (Cover Story)
As Arizonans turn to the desert for recreation, a careless minority scars the land by taking vehicles off-road.
THE GLORIOUS SONORAN
He's led two-month expeditions to the sweltering Gobi Desert for the last 11 years: "We only get to shower once or twice all summer," he says.
DINO HUNTER
This keeps responsibility as a condition for deserving suffering, and results in ("second-order") desert for compensation because the "negative responsibility" condition for desert is met, i.e.
Responsibility and desert: defending the connection
Whittaker chose the Atacama Desert for testing Nomad because the region has virtually no vegetation and a landscape similar to that of the moon or Mars.
On a roll: robot attempts desert voyage
Once a saguaro dies and the fleshy parts have decayed, this woody skeleton remains as a fixture in the desert for many years.
Cactus condo