lights out
light out
To flee hastily; to clear out or depart quickly. We lit out for the safe house as soon as we heard the police sirens in the distance. Everyone else started to light out of there when the manager announced he would be taking volunteers for weekend work.
See also: light, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
lights out
1. n. bedtime. It’s lights out, kids. Radios off, too!
2. n. death; time to die. (Underworld.) It’s lights out for you, chum.
See also: lights, out
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- light out
- light out for (some place)
- cut and run
- cut and run, to
- take flight
- charge out
- hit out for (some place)
- make for
- make for (somewhere or something)
- make for somewhere