slink away

1. Also, slink off. Depart furtively, as in The shoplifter slipped an item into his coat pocket and slunk away, or After that severe scolding, she slunk off. This term employs slink in the sense of “move stealthily,” a usage dating from the late 1300s.

Example Sentences

Do you slink away and count on the courts to sort it out?

From Salon

So Dennis Swanson, the head of the ABC’s sports division, ordered Lampley to cover Mike Tyson’s first fight on network TV in the hopes, Lampley said, he would embarrass himself and slink away.

From Los Angeles Times

To the eternal fury of her critics, Knox eventually decided that rather than slink away because her quirkiness rubbed people the wrong way when she was on trial for murder, she was going to own it all.

From Salon

"I tried to slink away and he was reeling me back," Annie says.

From BBC

So after all that screeching, it’s likely that many Republicans are going to slink away from their war on digital fentanyl.

From Slate