Walk out

Postal workers are set to walk out tomorrow if contract negotiations fail.

While the RMT and ScotRail bash heads over the pay freeze, RMT guards based at Glasgow Central are already walking out, with strikes planned [...] in a dispute over "abuse of disciplinary procedures".

The maidservant has been walking out with the butcher’s man.

Well, her an' your boy Al, they're a-walkin' out ever' night. An' Aggie’s a good healthy girl that oughta have a husban', else she might git in trouble.

And Maud, surely seventeen by now. Did she have a boy to walk out with?

[The Umbrella] kept off the Sun so effectually, that I could walk out in the hottest of the Weather with greater Advantage than I could before in the coolest, and when I had no need of it, cou’d close it and carry it under my Arm.

1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 118, 4 May, 1751, Volume 4, London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752, p. 161, The Turks are said to hear with wonder a proposal to walk out, only that they may walk back; and enquire, why any man should labour for nothing:

The gentlemen arrived early; and, before Mrs. Bennet had time to tell him of their having seen his aunt [...], Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed their all walking out. It was agreed to.

“Do you walk out this morning, my dear?” / “Yes, I shall go to the Rectory, and seek and find Caroline Helstone, and make her take some exercise: she shall have a breezy walk over Nunnely Common.”

The day was damp, and they were not going to walk out, so they both went up to their sitting-room;