moonlight flitting

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• moonlight flitting — noun see moonlight flit * * * moonlight flit or moonlight flitting noun A hasty removal by night, esp without paying due rent • • • Main Entry: ↑moon …   Useful english dictionary

• moonlight flit — noun or moonlight flitting slang Britain : a departure by night with one s possessions to avoid paying rent * * * moonlight flit or moonlight flitting noun A hasty removal by night, esp without paying due rent • • • Main Entry: ↑moon * * * moon …   Useful english dictionary

• moonlight flit —    the clandestine departure of an absconding debtor    Formerly, a tenant in arrears with his rent, whose chattels could be distrained by the landlord so long as they remained in the rented premises, but not elsewhere:     He has e en made a… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• moonlight flit — /munlaɪt ˈflɪt/ (say moohnluyt flit) noun Colloquial 1. a departure by night with one s possessions in order to avoid payment of rent. 2. any sudden departure, especially to avoid a disagreeable circumstance. –moonlight flitting, noun …  

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• flit — verb flitted, flitting (intransitive always + adv/prep) to move lightly or quickly and not stay in one place for very long: birds flitting about from branch to branch see also: do a moonlight flit moonlight 1 (2) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• flit — v. & n. v.intr. (flitted, flitting) 1 move lightly, softly, or rapidly (flitted from one room to another). 2 fly lightly; make short flights (flitted from branch to branch). 3 Brit. colloq. leave one s house etc. secretly to escape creditors or… …   Useful english dictionary

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• caprimulgiform — ▪ order of birds Introduction also called  nightjars    any of about 120 species of soft plumaged birds (bird), the major groups of which are called nightjars (nightjar), nighthawks (nighthawk), potoos (potoo), frogmouths (frogmouth), and owlet… …   Universalium

• flit —    1. to die    Literally, to remove to another place:     She canna flit in peace until she sees you. (W. Scott, 1816)    2. (do a)    to leave accommodation without paying rent due    A shortened form of moonlight flit:     The family on the… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms