part company

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part company (third-person singular simple present parts company, present participle parting company, simple past and past participle parted company)

1. To end a relationship. [with with]
2. To separate; to go one's own way (of two or more people or things). [with with]

   The vines parted company with the wall as I attempted the climb, and I crashed to the ground.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
     Episode 16

     The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite. Alluding to the encounter he said, laughingly, Stephen, that is:

   • 1958 October, J. M. Dunn, “The Afonwen Line—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 716:

     On leaving Caernarvon, trains for Llanberis take the left-hand of the two single tracks, and run alongside the Afonwen line until they cross Morfa Bridge, where the two lines part company.

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