moonlight flit

moonlight flit

A hasty nighttime departure, typically done to avoid paying money that one owes. Primarily heard in UK. I can't afford the rent this month, so we need to make a moonlight flit!
See also: flit, moonlight
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • do a moonlight flit
  • flit
  • knobstick wedding
  • (as) cheap as chips
  • cheap as chips
  • low rent
  • low-rent
  • (you) pay your money and take your choice
  • I must say good night
  • pay (one's) debt
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"I took a particularly upsetting call the other day from a woman living on an estate in Huddersfield whose neighbours had done a moonlight flit, leaving unpaid bills and their cat behind them.
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Some men might be able to completely turn their backs on their family and more or less do a moonlight flit but, for all your faults, you aren't one of them.
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