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take a powder
take a powder
Sl. to leave; to leave town. (Underworld.) Why don't you take a powder? Go on! Beat it! Willie took a powder and will lie low for a while.
take a powder
(American informal) to leave a place suddenly, especially in order to avoid an unpleasant situation He saw the police coming and took a powder.
See keep powder drytake a powder
Make a speedy departure, run away, as in I looked around and he was gone-he'd taken a powder. This slangy idiom may be derived from the British dialect sense of powder as "a sudden hurry," a usage dating from about 1600. It may also allude to the explosive quality of gunpowder.
take a powder
tv. to leave; to leave town. (Underworld.) Bruno took a powder and will lie low for a while.
take a powder
To make a quick departure; run away.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Rosette | | - | French |
Byelobog | | - | Slavic Mythology |
Ronnie | | RAH-nee | English |
Raina | | - | Bulgarian |
Tor | | TOOR (Swedish, Norwegian), TOR (Danish) | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
FaolÁN | | FWAY-lahn | Irish |