to suddenly leave your wife, husband, or partner
He had tried to argue with her and had said, `You can't run out on my wife and me like that!
I had never once expected to be run out on a rail by a supposed superior who was less of a police officer than I was in every way.
Jane’s husband ran out on her when their children were still young.
Unlike, by inference, Edwin's elder brothers, the twins who had simply run out on the whole caboodle.
When she had run out on the road to show it to Josh Killian who took the mail out to the settlement, the confrontation was guaranteed.
runs out on
running out on
ran out on
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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