skip town

skip town (third-person singular simple present skips town, present participle skipping town, simple past and past participle skipped town)

1. (informal) To abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning.

   The suspect skipped town when he found out the police were going to raid his apartment.

   • 2024 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Solzhenitsyn’s Warning”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     We have just seen a feckless House of Representatives pass a ludicrous impeachment of a Cabinet secretary by one vote—and then skip town while avoiding a vote on aid to Ukraine.

• blow town