alight from

alight from

To get down from, or off of, something (usually a vehicle). The children alighted from the school bus on the first day of school. We've landed, but we still need to alight from the plane.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

alight from something

to get off something; to get down off something. Almost three hundred people alighted from the plane.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • let out of
  • let out of (something or some place)
  • old school tie
  • the old school tie
  • How do you like school?
  • teach school
  • new school
  • dropout factory
  • alma mater
  • sock hop
References in periodicals archive
A police source, who asked not to be identified for not having been authorized to release a statement to reporters, said the Odicta couple refused to alight from the Ro-Ro vessel so they were able to continue to travel to Aklan.
3 companions of slain Odictas nabbed with guns at Batangas port