bail out on

Meanings

verbbail out on (third-person singular simple present bails out on, present participle bailing out on, simple past and past participle bailed out on)

present singular third person bails out on · participle present bailing out on · participle past bailed out on · past bailed out on

idiomatictransitiveTo abandon (someone or something).
But he's just kind of jumped ship. He's bailed out on Basingstoke as a town without even warning us.
2004 December 11, Faisal al Yafai, Owen Bowcott and Michael White, “Meet the DUP's new MP ... for Basingstoke”, in The Guardian, page Politics
Synonyms: leave in the lurch, walk out on

verbTo abandon (someone or something).

Similar

leave in the lurchwalk out on

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