part company

present singular third person parts company · participle present parting company · participle past parted company · past parted company

1. To end a relationship.
2. To separate; to go one's own way (of two or more people or things).

   The vines parted company with the wall as I attempted the climb, and I crashed to the ground.

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   The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:

   Episode 16

   On leaving Caernarvon, trains for Llanberis take the left-hand of the two single tracks, and run alongside the Afonwen line until they cross Morfa Bridge, where the two lines part company.

   1958 October 28, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 716