Do a Moonlight Flit?
To Leave Secretly, Especially to Avoid Paying Money That You Owe: When He Discovered the Police Were After Him, He Did a Moonlight Flit. What Does the Idiom Do...
to leave secretly, especially to avoid paying money that you owe: When he discovered the police were after him, he did a moonlight flit.
What does the idiom do a moonlight flit mean?
British, informal. : to leave a place secretly during the night especially to avoid paying money that one owes.
Where does the phrase moonlight flit come from?
The phrase was moonlight flitting in Scottish use; it is first recorded in A complete collection of Scotish [sic] proverbs explained and made intelligible to the English reader (London, 1721), by James Kelly: He has left the Key in the Cat hole. He has left the Key under the Door. He has taken a Moon light flitting.
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