part company
English
Verb
part company (third-person singular simple present parts company, present participle parting company, simple past and past participle parted company)
- (idiomatic) To end a relationship
- (idiomatic, of two or more people) to separate; go their own way
- 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483: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:
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Translations
To end a relationship
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To separate; go their own way
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