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get out while the getting is good



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Idioms and Phrases

Leave while one can or has the chance to, as in He just had a good offer from a rival firm and decided to get out while the getting is good . This colloquial phrase uses get out in the sense of “escape†or “depart.â€
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Example Sentences

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He wants to get out while the getting is good.

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Johnson’s ascendancy would offer another reason to get out while the getting is good.

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The biggest players have decided to either get out while the getting is good, in the case of Time Warner Inc. and 21st Century Fox , or stretch their balance sheets to near the breaking point to bulk up in the face of the growing threat, à la Walt Disney Co. and Comcast Corp.

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Her resignation, though, may have more to do with finding a way to get out while the getting is good than with containing the damage from the leaked emails, which show Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was on to something when he suggested the Democratic primaries and caucuses were rigged against him.

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Daimler announced it sold its 4% stake in Tesla for about $780 million, 10 months after agreeing to an equity collar that hedged its position in the automaker’s volatile shares At the time, Daimler said it expected to maintain the equity investment in Tesla for at least three years, but apparently this year’s gains were enough to convince the German carmaker to get out while the getting is good.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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